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What Trump’s Executive Order Could Mean for Childhood Vaccines
Doubt, fear, and confusion
Doctors say they most fear what the executive order will do to increase vaccine hesitancy and uncertainty.
Though the executive order doesn’t mention autism, Trump cited rising autism rates as a reason for the changing recommendations during the signing ceremony. “Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today,” Trump said. “In those times, people were much healthier, and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist.”
Trump also claimed that children receive vaccines the size of a “bottle of soda.”
Shots contain no more than a teaspoon of liquid, Offit says, and usually contain a fraction of that. “This is so embarrassing for this country,” he says of Trump’s comments.
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