Lead medical assistant Maria Teresa Diocales prepares a dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for a young patient at International Community Health Services, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Seattle. Photo credit: Lindsey Wasson / AP.
Lead medical assistant Maria Teresa Diocales prepares a dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for a young patient at International Community Health Services, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Seattle. Photo credit: Lindsey Wasson / AP.

The city of Baltimore is continuing to offer all immunizations on the federal childhood vaccination schedule despite President Donald Trump’s latest executive order.

Trump’s new order calls for cutting the number of childhood vaccines recommended by the federal government from 17 to 11 and breaking up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into separate shots.

It’s the president’s latest attempt to shake up the childhood vaccine schedule after his administration’s previous efforts were blocked by a federal judge in Boston.

Read more at WYPR.

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