“Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025–2026 school year for all tracked vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday,” Axios reports.

”Exemptions from getting one or more vaccines increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia, growing to 4.2% from 3.6% the year before.”

”The drop-off coincided with continued efforts by the Trump administration to make controversial vaccine policy changes and with measles cases hitting levels not seen in more than three decades.”

The Economist: “There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Nor is there evidence that spreading out vaccines is beneficial. In fact, doing so increases the window in which kids are vulnerable to infection. Doctors’ groups, therefore, lined up to denounce the order…”

“The good news, then, is that Mr Trump’s order will have little practical effect. States, not the federal government, normally set vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. And most of them are guided by abundant evidence that vaccines have driven down rates of infectious disease by a miraculous degree.”

“But as the administration injects more doubt and confusion into decisions over vaccines, parents are increasingly declining them.”

“Senior officials of the World Health Organization, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, criticized the Trump administration’s newest attempt to trigger an overhaul of U.S. vaccination policy on Wednesday, calling it politically motivated and contradictory to the best available science,” Stat reports.

“President Donald Trump’s order directing Americans to receive separate ​measles, mumps and rubella vaccines faces an immediate obstacle: none of the individual shots are licensed in the United States ‌and experts say it could take years before any become available, if they ever do,” Reuters reports.

“President Donald Trump compared the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine to a nuclear bomb being set off inside a kid’s body during a Tuesday interview,” Mediaite reports.

Said Trump: “If you give them separately — the M, the M, and the R, it’s fine. When you put them together, they’re sort of like a nuclear weapon, according to some. So why wouldn’t you give them separately? What’s hurt by giving them separately?”

New York Post: Trump claims MMR vaccine can be “quite lethal.”

“The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would upend decades of federal guidance on which vaccines are administered to children and call for states to reconsider school vaccine requirements,” the Washington Post reports.

“It calls for rethinking the long-standing practice of grouping vaccines to reduce the number of medical appointments parents of small children need to schedule.”

“The Trump administration took a partial step Monday toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promised food-system overhaul, unveiling new transparency rules for food ingredients while again delaying a long-promised definition of ultraprocessed food,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The new proposed federal rule would ask companies to notify the Food and Drug Administration when they introduce a new substance into food products and provide information on why they consider it to be safe. The move appeals to food-safety advocates who had long decried what they called a secret system and a loophole that allowed companies to declare that ingredients were safe without seeking the agency’s approval or notifying the public.”