White House Issues Executive Order to Revise U.S. Childhood Vaccine Recommendations

The White House released a new Executive Order aiming to change U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations. This order reduces the number of recommended childhood immunizations from 18 to 11 and proposes separating the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three individual shots. This follows previous administration actions and comes despite ongoing legal challenges to earlier changes in the federal childhood vaccine schedule.