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Trump's order to split kids' vaccines faces expert and industry hurdles

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President Donald Trump has issued an executive order mandating the separation of combination childhood vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine, into individual injections and spacing out their administration. This directive faces significant opposition from public health experts who cite a lack of scientific basis and potential negative impacts on public health policy. Pharmaceutical companies would need to invest heavily in new manufacturing and conduct extensive studies to revive individual vaccines not marketed in the U.S. for decades, a process experts estimate could take years and tens of millions of dollars. AI

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Trump's order to split kids' vaccines faces expert and industry hurdles

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press ·

    Trump wants big pharma to split kids’ vaccines. They’ll probably ignore him

    “There is no good justification for this,” said Johns Hopkins’ Anna Durbin. “I think it’s very bad public health policy.”

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