President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that would significantly alter the federal guidance for childhood vaccines and call for states to reconsider their guidance for vaccine requirements for school, The Washington Postreported.

Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have long pushed the theory that vaccines–particularly the meales, mumps and rubella vaccine–is liked to autism spectrum disorder. This comes despite the fact that multiple studies have debunked the supposed link between childhood vaccinations and children developing autism spectrum disorder.

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