WHO chief criticizes Trump’s vaccine initiative as contrary to evidence

The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to reform childhood vaccination policies, particularly his proposal to separate the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into individual doses. This criticism follows Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of a debunked link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Tedros emphasized that vaccines are safe, urging that vaccination policies should be based on scientific evidence rather than political influence.

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