US President Trump moved to sharply reduce the US childhood vaccine schedule and recommended splitting the MMR vaccine, despite objections from physicians and researchers.

US President Trump moved to sharply reduce the US childhood vaccine schedule and recommended splitting the MMR vaccine, despite objections from physicians and researchers. Link Trump order reduces US vaccine schedule, seeks to split MMR shot, cites autism diagnoses The order advances a goal of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who has promoted a link between vaccines and autism that scientists have repeatedly debunked.