Trump Signs Order Calling for Spacing out Childhood Vaccines

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. 

The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and



administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. 

It also directs the nation's health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied , and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States.