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Trump wants to split the MMR vaccine. Experts say that's unlikely — and comes with consequences

President Donald Trump 's latest executive order calls for splitting the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine into three separate shots – but doctors and other experts say that effort has no scientific basis and is unlikely to get…

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President Donald Trump 's latest executive order calls for splitting the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine into three separate shots – but doctors and other experts say that effort has no scientific basis and is unlikely to get off the ground. Trump on Monday said without evidence that the vaccine could be "quite lethal" in its combined form, even though the shot has repeatedly been proven safe and effective across large-scale studies.

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