Cyprus Mail11 Aug 2026

US Health Secretary R.F.Kennedy Jr. gets his way as Trump order reduces US vaccine schedule

President Donald Trump signed an executive ordercalling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations, which he said would give U.S. children “gold-standard” protection and align the country with peer nations that recommend fewer shots.

The order advances a long-standing 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....

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