Michigan holds line on vaccines for kids despite Trump executive order - Detroit Free Press
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will ignore a recent executive order from President Trump regarding childhood vaccine schedules. The state will continue to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines, maintaining current school immunization requirements.
Why it matters
This highlights a growing conflict between federal executive authority and state-level public health autonomy regarding medical standards.
Hear this story President Donald Trump issued an executive order Aug. 10, calling for changes in federal guidelines for U.S. childhood vaccines, a separation of combined vaccines like the MMR, and more. Trump's "gold standard" guidelines and executive order were met with backlash from doctors, medical associations and others, who suggested they would lead to more confusion about vaccine safety. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said it will follow Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian's standing order and adhere to the American Academy of Pediatrics' vaccine schedule. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said it will stand its ground on childhood vaccines, leaving its recommendations unchanged despite the executive order President Donald Trump signed Aug. 10, declaring that the federal government now recognizes "gold-standard " guidelines that seek to trim the immunization schedule for kids by seven vaccines, from 18 to 11.
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