‘Dangerous’: As measles cases reach a 30-year high, American Academy of Pediatrics blasts Trump/RFK Jr. vaccine order

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s … executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. 

“As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. 

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Under Trump’s guidelines, all children should receive separate vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, pneumococcal disease, HPV and varicella, commonly known as chicken pox.

But only high-risk children should receive respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibodies, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal B, meningococcal ACWY and dengue vaccines, according to the president’s order.

The president added, “Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much [healthier], and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist. 

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But Racine pushed back against Trump’s claims ….

… “Dozens of studies involving millions of people show there is no link between vaccines and autism, and yet federal leaders continue to promote this outdated, disproven idea to scare families,” [Racine said].

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