ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Local pediatricians are speaking out after President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday lowering the number of recommended vaccines for children.
News10NBC’s Declan Stablow took the administration’s claims to doctors at Golisano Children’s Hospital. Dr. Elizabeth Murray, a pediatrician with University of Rochester Medicine, said the executive order is all noise and that it’s still up to states to decide their own vaccine requirements.
She told Stablow some of the order’s recommendations aren’t even possible. The executive order recommends separating the measles, mumps and rubella or MMR vaccine into three different single disease shots.
Murray said right now in the U.S., those vaccines are only available as a combination.
“If we wanted to invent new vaccines, that could happen. But that’s going to take a lot of time,” Murray said. “We have a vaccine that works beautifully in preventing some really terrible diseases, and I think the scientific community is still of the opinion we should use that vaccine that we already have.”
Murray said pediatricians are still making the same vaccine recommendations they would’ve made two days ago. But she’s worried the recommended schedule may cause some confusion.
“So parents think that maybe there is new science, there is new recommendation,” Murray said. “But again, the scientific research, the body of research we have has not changed. And so therefore the recommendations do not change.”
Murray also responded to a claim by President Trump, who said he saw early on and has seen proof of it where they have a vaccination that looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child’s body.
“The vaccine bottles are about half a milliliter of volume, which is a tiny fraction of a teaspoon,” Murray said. “So you could actually add up the volume of vaccines that a child receives over the course of their life. And it’s still much less volume than in a can of soda.”
The executive order lowers recommended immunizations for kids from 18 to 11, which the Trump administration says is more in line with European countries. Murray said there’s a reason the U.S. number is higher.
“The United States is vaccinating against the diseases that we need to protect our population against,” Murray said. “We are different than other countries. And so our population has different risk factors.”
Stablow also asked Murray about President Trump’s repeated claim that vaccines cause autism.
“We have no data supporting a link between vaccines and autism,” Murray said. “We need to spend more time figuring out what the actual cause of autism is, and I look forward to the opportunity to letting our scientists have funding for research to look into the actual cause of autism.”
Murray recommends that any parent who has questions about the current vaccine requirements should talk with their pediatricians. Murray also said limiting access to vaccines means greater risk of outbreaks.
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the executive order isn’t meant to limit access to vaccines but to give parents more options.
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