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Trump Executive Order Cuts Vaccines to 11 Shots

8/16/2026

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Trump Cuts Vaccines

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026, cutting vaccination recommendation to 11 shots and requiring the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in three doses.
The order directs the Justice Department to sue states whose vaccination laws allegedly infringe parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, or equal protection.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt praised the order as protecting parental rights.
The Oregon Health Authority announced a full review of the order’s implications.

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Trump Cuts Vaccines

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on August 10, 2026 cutting vaccine schedule to 11 shots and splitting the MMR vaccine into three doses.
Public-health experts warn the order will sow confusion, increase vaccine hesitancy, and raise illness risk as measles cases climb to 2,566.
Medical experts say splitting MMR may weaken immunity, contradicting evidence.
American Academy of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases Society of America called order unscientific and dangerous.

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Historical Context

The 1905 Supreme Court ruling in Jacobson v. Massachusetts upheld state power to require small-pox vaccination, a principle later reaffirmed in Zucht v. King (1922) and cited in dozens of cases. After smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, the precedent resurfaced when President Donald Trump issued an August 10 2026 executive order invoking Jacobson to challenge state vaccine bans.

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Trump Cuts Vaccines

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026, cutting vaccination recommendation to 11 shots and requiring the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in three doses.
The order directs the Justice Department to sue states whose vaccination laws allegedly infringe parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, or equal protection.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt praised the order as protecting parental rights.
The Oregon Health Authority announced a full review of the order’s implications.

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