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Jesse Kline: Trump's anti-vaccine order is a health disaster in the making

The new vaccine guidelines essentially aim to turn the entire country into a giant science experiment

Three weeks before President Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccinations and splitting vaccines into multiple shots, Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of measles cases in the United States had reached levels not seen since “Terminator 2” was in theatres.

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If those optics weren’t bad enough, this week the U.S. Centres for Disease Control (CDC) released data showing a sharp increase in kindergarten students who sought vaccine exemptions in the 2025-26 school year. The percentage of kindergartners who received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine dropped to 92.4 last year, well below the 95 per cent coverage needed to prevent outbreaks.

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This is significant for a disease that was officially eradicated in the United States 26 years ago and can lead to serious complications, including brain swelling, pneumonia and even death. Similarly low childhood vaccination rates have been reported for other potentially deadly diseases, including polio.

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