Child vaccine schedule reduced as Trump moves to dramatically shift medical power to parents

By Fox News · Fox News

President Donald Trump is spearheading a major overhaul of current childhood vaccination mandates in an effort to give parents more freedom to choose which shots their children take, and when. Trump signed an Executive Order announcing what the administration is calling the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations, saying that not only do the new recommendations align with other developed nations, but they also with common sense. A memo on the order recommends children receive immunizations for 11 diseases, fewer than the 18 current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. It also ended recommendations that all minors receive the COVID-19 jab. A Health and Human Services (HHS) scientific assessment compared the U.S. vaccine schedule to those of peer nations in Europe. It found that the American childhood vaccine schedule recommends many more vaccines than most western nation counterparts — sometimes close to double the number of shots. SWITZERLAND FIRES HOCKEY COACH WHO ADMITTED TO FAKING VACCINATION STATUS FOR 2022 BEIJING OLYMPICS The memo recommends that parents should have five separate vaccine appointments, instead of children taking all of the vaccines at once. "I think you're going to see some amazing results [by] breaking it up," Trump said in the Oval Office while announcing the order on Monday. "It's not just that you're doing fewer vaccines or jabs, as they say, but you're doing them in a series of visits to the doctor. Much smaller amounts." Trump has previously voiced opposition to appointments where babies and toddlers are given multiple vaccinations at one time. The memo on Trump's latest health-related executive action stresses flexibility for parents, urging them to "make individualized decisions for higher-risk children through shared clinical decision-making." The memo also recommends separating the measles , mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines into separate shots, instead of taking all three vaccines at once, as is common…