Trump says some routine immunizations will be split into 5 shots

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is planning to recommend that certain childhood immunizations be broken up into five separate shots, each with a “small amount of the vaccine.” These “20% doses” would each be given six months apart, he said. Related video above: Flu and COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out, but one shot is still not available “Instead of a child going in and having a tremendous amount of different vaccines pumped into a big proportion of the body … we’re going to recommend that they do five doses marked one, two, three, four, five and that they be given in six-month intervals, so that a small amount of the vaccine gets pumped into the body,” Trump said. Such a plan would render vaccines ineffective and would not make them safer, said Dr.