Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance
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Trump signed an order to space out childhood vaccines — a belief major medical groups call discredited, raising the question of who should set public health policy.
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Theory Briefing
- Trump's executive order pushes childhood vaccines to be spread across separate visits, directly contradicting guidance from major medical groups.
- The spaced-out vaccine theory has been broadly rejected by medical consensus, yet now carries the weight of a presidential directive.
- The order puts federal executive power on a collision course with established public health institutions over childhood immunization schedules.