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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._ --- Aug 12, 2026 6:26 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Signs Executive Order to Revamp Kidney Care](/video/WbzsGo0a/) ### Trump Signs Executive Order to Revamp Kidney Care [President Trump Signs 'Obamacare Relief' Executive Order](/video/k4JwG5de/) ### President Trump Signs 'Obamacare Relief' Executive Order [You Can Now Buy Donald Trump’s Childhood Home](/video/cVfdm81g/) ### You Can Now Buy Donald Trump’s Childhood Home --- ## Transcript [00:00] Effective immediately. [00:01] My administration is recognizing [00:03] gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations [00:06] for only 11 core vaccinations [00:08] against the most serious and dangerous diseases, [00:11] along with the MMR, [00:13] which hopefully will be split up. [00:15] You have the MMR. [00:16] We want it in three separate vaccinations. [00:19] Parents can still choose to give [00:21] their children all of the vaccinations if they wish. [00:25] It's up to the parents who are [00:27] making recommendations that are strong, [00:28] but it's up to the parents if they wish, [00:30] and they will be covered by insurance. [00:32] It is essential to our research efforts that we have [00:35] the very best vaccine recommendations [00:37] in the entire world, [00:39] so we're reducing them. [00:40] We're changing it to visits over [00:42] a period of a year or year and a half. [00:44] So they get 20% of [00:47] what they would have gotten in one big shot. [00:49] This announcement is a major victory for parents rights, [00:52] religious and constitutional rights, [00:54] and for the gold standard science. [00:56] And we will continue to do the research [00:58] and update the recommendations as we learn more. 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