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President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> on vaccines, signed August 10, is the latest in his administration\u2019s endless attacks<\/a> on public health. It recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, be separated into three individual shots. There is no scientific evidence or public health data to support this decision. Trump has even admitted<\/a> his decision wasn\u2019t based on facts but \u201con what I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Trump\u2019s feelings seem to largely match the conspiratorial anti-vaccination ideas of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which threaten<\/a> to make the United States more susceptible to once-preventable diseases.<\/p>\n

Since 1994, the United States\u2019 robust vaccination program has precluded<\/a> an estimated 508 million cases of disease, kept 32 million people out of the hospital, and prevented 1,129,000 deaths. Moreover, the nation\u2019s erstwhile commitment to vaccinations has saved<\/a> $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in lost wages and missed work.<\/p>\n

The MMR vaccine has been available<\/a> in the United States for more than fifty years and was a major factor in the nation attaining<\/a> measles elimination status in 2000. Now that status is in jeopardy, pending a Pan American Health Organization review<\/a> in November 2026, amid the worst U.S. measles outbreak<\/a> in decades. This loss will be largely the fault of the Trump administration\u2019s casting doubt about the MMR vaccine, which has severely undercut<\/a> vaccination coverage among kindergartners, as more parents refuse to vaccinate their children.<\/p>\n

So what happens if the MMR vaccine is separated into three individual shots? First, the U.S. doesn\u2019t currently produce separate vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, because they don\u2019t need to be provided separately. This means vaccine makers will have to develop and test new vaccines, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order is certain to sow confusion and chaos among parents and caregivers. Separating these shots will triple the number of visits to the pediatrician, requiring caregivers to miss more work and increasing costs to families. Healthcare providers will have to keep significantly greater numbers of vaccines on hand, and appointments will become harder to schedule, eroding healthcare access for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If parents choose to get the single measles shot first, their child will be unnecessarily vulnerable to mumps and rubella as they await their next appointment. So now, amid an uncontrolled measles outbreak spreading across the country<\/a>, it will be harder for parents to get their children fully vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The impact of these changes will likely be felt<\/a> most keenly among \u201cout-groups\u201d \u2014 immigrants, those with lower incomes or disabilities, and people of color. But having growing unvaccinated populations endangers everyone, especially children too young to be vaccinated, and those for whom vaccinations are less effective.<\/p>\n

Another issue is the role of the federal government in vaccine decisions. Already, many states have severed ties<\/a> with vaccine recommendations from federal organizations, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose vaccine recommendations Kennedy has attempted to undermine. It would once have been unimaginable that the federal government\u2019s vaccine recommendations would be considered untrustworthy, but that is exactly where we are at.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, the U.S. embraced the \u201cgold standard\u201d for vaccination programs. Those days are gone. Now politics have trumped science, and \u201cfeelings\u201d have replaced critical thinking. As we contend with measles, rampant foodborne illness<\/a> and the invasion of screwworm<\/a>, we aren\u2019t even close to experiencing the full magnitude of the outcomes that the administration\u2019s endless war on public health may bring. Future historians and scientists will study what happened here and why \u2014 and the shame and disgrace of this era will be a cautionary tale for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Jacobs is an epidemiologist and professor emerita at the University of Arizona and a founding member of the advocacy group<\/em> Defend Public Health<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>James Alwine is a virologist, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy for Microbiology.<\/em> This column was produced for <\/em>Progressive Perspectives<\/em><\/a>, a project of The Progressive magazine, and distributed by Tribune News Service.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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James Alwine is a virologist, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\u00a0and the American Academy for Microbiology.<\/p>\n

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