The Malignant Fascist's regime has been the most anti-science, anti-medicine administration in U.S. history, and yesterday's issuance of a MF executive order on vaccines for children just underlined that fact. In a dangerous and potentially lethal change from medically-approved practices, the junk science advocate MF's order provides for spacing of childhood vaccinations, rather than administering them in combination. From the Associated Press:
"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. [snip]
Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used." [snip]
Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the announcement spreads uncertainty, fear and confusion where 'there doesn’t need to be any of that.' He disputed Trump’s recommendations and said previous ones should stand.
'Science about vaccines and their efficacy has not changed,' he said. 'The distribution of viruses and other pathogens in our environment has not changed. Children in this country have not changed in the last 48 hours.'" (our emphasis)
The MF's flaky Health and Human Services Secretary Bobby Brainworm has long been an advocate of few to no vaccines, spreading the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism in children. Vaccines and other medical practices are a popular target for far-right, conspiracy promoting ignoramuses, who favor Facebook medicine, home remedies, and snake-handling over a physician's care. This is a serious setback for children's health.
BONUS: As expected, the presidents of both the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued statements blasting the MF's EO. The American Pharmacists Association and American Public Health Association followed suit. But, one could choose to believe the narcissistic psychopathic moron and Bobby Brainworm instead.
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