Trump order backs cutting child vaccine schedule to 11 shots

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday backing a smaller routine vaccine schedule for children, with a goal of reducing recommended shots to 11. The order also calls for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be given as separate single-disease doses at different visits, a change some health experts warn could increase missed appointments and lower immunization rates. Trump repeatedly tied vaccines to autism during the signing, despite decades of evidence finding no causal link. The measure deepens an overhaul led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and directs the Justice Department to examine whether states are violating religious, medical, disability and parental exemptions to vaccine mandates.