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# Trump Signs Order Calling for Spacing Out Childhood Vaccines

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_Published 2026-08-12. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits._


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## Transcript

Effective immediately. My administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up. You have the MMR. We want it in three separate vaccinations. Parents can still choose to give their children all of the vaccinations if they wish. It's up to the parents who are making recommendations that are strong, but it's up to the parents if they wish, and they will be covered by insurance. It is essential to our research efforts that we have the very best vaccine recommendations in the entire world, so we're reducing them.

We're changing it to visits over a period of a year or year and a half. So they get 20% of what they would have gotten in one big shot. This announcement is a major victory for parents rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science. And we will continue to do the research and update the recommendations as we learn more. And I think you're going to see some amazing results breaking it up.

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