Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva para reducir vacunas infantiles obligatorias

An executive order to decrease the number of immunizations recommended for children by federal agencies to “maximize parental choice over childhood vaccines” was signed Monday by President Donald Trump, who drew a link between vaccines and the increase in autism diagnoses.

With Trump’s latest order, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) immunization schedule will recommend that children receive vaccines to protect against 11 diseases — down from the 18 diseases recommended by the agency in 2024. From now on, the CDC will recognize the “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations,” which were put in place with recommendations from health professionals.

Immunizations for hepatitis, COVID-19, and influenza are among the shots that will no longer be recommended for all children, but will still be available if parents opt in.

The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine will now also be given out in three separate vaccinations at three separate doctor’s visits, as opposed to all at once.

“Together there could be a possibility that they are quite lethal, and separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal, just very effective,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of splitting up the MMR shots.

“This updated recommendation vitally aligns the United States with other advanced and developed nations around the world; more importantly, it aligns us with common sense and knowledge,” the president explained, before addressing the theory that today’s higher rates of autism may be connected to certain childhood vaccines.

According to Trump, the number of autism cases “did not exist” in generations prior, and there is a reason for such an “epidemic” of cases in 2026.

“We’re going to bring it back much closer to where it was,” he said, referring to the number of diagnoses. …