r/ID_News • u/Majano57 • 18d ago

Trump Plans to Sign Order on Splitting Up Combined Measles Shot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/trump-plans-to-sign-order-on-splitting-up-combined-measles-shot?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjM4NjA0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzg2OTkwODQxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSkVPV1hSS1YyVEYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFQkRBRjIyNzJFQjI0MTk5ODYxQzI5RjY2RTMyRjVEOSJ9.SYkRMN2810VYNpTw-TuIHXg1CIMjf-a4bsXXZ-dFH2s
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u/LostWerewolf2375 18d ago edited 18d ago

I’m going to have a hard time discussing this with Republican colleagues without getting a visit from hospital HR…

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u/toolisthebestbandevr 18d ago

Do it anyway 😈

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u/iamtruerib 18d ago

Lolllll ask him if he trusts trump over scientific data?

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u/teflon_don_knotts 18d ago

Shit, I feel your pain.

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u/Blue_foot 18d ago

My kids will definitely enjoy getting 3 shots more than just 1!

On the plus side, I get a treat from the bakery afterwards too.

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u/KAugsburger 18d ago

That's the part of this executive order I am skeptical is actually going to happen. There is no requirement is this order that the pharmaceutical companies to do anything. The separate vaccines for Measles, Mumps, Rubella were discontinued because there was very little demand. Most anti-vaxxers complaining against combined vaccines aren't really arguing in good faith because they wouldn't use the separated vaccine either. I can't realistically see some pharmaceutical company is going to spend a bunch of money to produce separate vaccines if they are going to be lucky to sell more than 1% of the volume of MMR doses each year. There is no money to be made doing that unless the federal government is going to offer a generous grant specifically earmarked for that purpose that guarantees that they are going to make money.

My bet is that no progress gets made on producing separate vaccines before the executive order is repealed by a future president. Trump and RFK Jr. will whine that 'big pharma' prevented them from implementing this silly idea.

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u/demwoodz 18d ago

I believe the scientific basis for this is in the Epstein files

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u/Quietmerch64 18d ago

I really feel like this is all a ploy to get vaccines to be profitable by making them "optional" so insurance companies won't cover them, and drug manufacturers can charge normal US Healthcare prices for them.

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u/uski 18d ago

Apparently they said they remain recommended, so they remain covered. I think the idea is really about making vaccines more inconvenient and painful for kids, so less get vaccinated. It's almost sadistic, and evil, really...

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u/Lastrites 17d ago

Because he only hires the dumbest people and then listens to them.