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Fauci’s texts, Trump’s executive order and the resurgence of anti-vaccine rhetoric

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By Aria Bendix Verified, Erika Edwards Verified
| NBC News Verified
Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in 2020.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images file Aug. 11, 2026, 8:55 PM EDT Vaccine skepticism has come roaring back into the political spotlight after months of relative silence on the subject from the Trump administration, which for a time seemed to be focusing on more mainstream health issues ahead of the midterm elections. Just a moment. We are getting your experience ready.
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Trump wants the MMR vaccine divided into three shots. Is that even possible?

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By Erika Edwards Verified
| NBC News Verified
The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been given for decades in the U.S. as a single shot.Joe Raedle / Getty Images file Aug. 11, 2026, 6:07 PM EDT Dividing the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine into three separate shots would be likely to cost millions of dollars and take years to accomplish, vaccine experts say, making it impossible to follow President Donald Trump’s latest directive to break up the immunizations and give them at three doctor’s office visits. Just a moment.
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Trump Order Aims to Cut Number of Diseases All Children Should Be Vaccinated Against From 18 to 11

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By Aria Bendix Verified, Erika Edwards Verified
| TODAY Verified
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday that aims to reducethe number of universally recommended vaccines for children — a move that reaffirms the dramatic overhaul Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this year, which has been blocked in court. Similar to that vaccine schedule change, the new order recommends dropping the list of diseases that all children should be vaccinated against from 18 to 11.
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