In a move that blurs the boundary between political instinct and medical science, President Trump announced plans to fragment standard childhood vaccine doses into five smaller injections spread across thirty months — framing the change as a safety measure despite no scientific basis for the claim. The proposal arrives wrapped in a decades-old and thoroughly debunked theory linking vaccines to autism, and is championed by an HHS Secretary whose skepticism of immunization has long preceded his tenure. Vaccine scientists warn that doses reduced below therapeutic thresholds do not protect — they
Trump proposes splitting childhood vaccines into five doses; experts say plan would render them ineffective
Children could lose protection against preventable diseases if vaccine efficacy is compromised by dose reduction.