Trump says some routine immunizations will be split into five separate shots. Vaccine experts say it won’t work
Trump said the plan would space smaller doses six months apart, while vaccine experts warned it could weaken protection and not improve safety.
- On Sept 18, President Donald Trump announced plans to demand vaccine makers split childhood immunizations into five separate 20% doses given in six-month intervals, claiming this would lead to a "massive reduction in autism."
- HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy promoted this approach Thursday at a Children's Health Defense conference, building on an August executive order where President Trump directed the government to reshape childhood vaccine schedules.
- Trump's proposal contradicts current medical practice, as experts note the standard 0.5 milliliters dose is designed for optimal safety and efficacy, while he provided no scientific evidence linking vaccines to autism.
- Vaccine inventor Paul Offit called the plan "buffoonery," stating the proposed schedule would make vaccines ineffective and fail to increase safety, as reducing doses while adding shots contradicts established immunology principles.
- It remains unclear which specific immunizations President Trump plans to target, as his administration's previous attempt to overhaul the federal childhood vaccine schedule faced legal challenges earlier this year before being temporarily blocked.
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He did not specify which vaccines he was referring to.
Trump said he would seek to reduce the dosages of childhood vaccinations in the United States in order to reduce the number of cases of autism
Trump said he would seek to reduce the dosages of childhood vaccinations in the United States in order to reduce the number of cases of autism.Vaccination with certain drugs will be divided into several doses, and some vaccinations will be given later...
Donald Trump demands that childhood vaccines be divided into more doses to “reduce autism” in the United States
President Donald Trump said this Friday that his government plans to recommend that certain childhood vaccines be divided into five separate doses, each with a “small amount of the vaccine.” These “20% dose” would be given with a dose of...
Trump says he will demand drug companies split up vaccines into more doses
Those comments came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told attendees of a conference for the anti-vaccine group he founded that they have a “friend at the White House.”
TRUMP has announced a plan to split vaccines into smaller doses to supposedly reduce autism. Experts warn that such an approach would make vaccines completely ineffective, not safer.
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