Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 10 calling for spacing out childhood vaccines.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) and Jayme Leagh Franklin with the The Conservateur (L), signs an executive order calling for childhood vaccine shots to be spaced out into separate visits during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 10, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe order recommends administering the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in three shots in separate visits.
"The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits," the order states.
The executive order calls for the attorney general to take "appropriate measures to further meritorious legal actions challenging state laws that conflict with states' constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, States' obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adol
