Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is undergoing more scrutiny by the Trump administration in their ongoing reassessment of vaccines despite the worst measles outbreak in decades.
Jim O’Neill, the deputy secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), called on Monday for new vaccines to replace the current MMR shots.
“I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and ‘break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots,’” O’Neil wrote in a post on X/Twitter.
He quoted a post from Donald Trump on 26 September urging against the use of Tylenol and “mixed” vaccines, as well as delaying hepatitis B vaccination from birth until 12 years of age.
