Local health experts are raising concerns about President Donald Trump’s executive order to drastically revamp vaccine schedules for children.
The order calls for a reduction in the number of federally recommended vaccines from 17 down to 11.
Will Humble with the Arizona Public Health Association says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tried to change vaccine schedules for children, but those attempts have been blocked in courts.
"It doesn’t change what the courts have said, which is ‘Secretary Kennedy, you can’t do what you say you want to do in changing the schedule this way. You gotta go through the regular process,'" Humble said.
Humble says Trump’s executive order likely won’t change what doctors recommend.
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