Barbara Rodriguez

Interim Health and Caregiving Reporter

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President Donald Trump is peddling a vision for childhood vaccines that — in addition to making children susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases for longer than they need to be — would place an extra burden on working mothers.

The president made a series of informal recommendations in a Truth Social post on Friday that shared misleading information about vaccines. Trump suggested, without reason, that parents spread out their children’s combination vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (also known as chickenpox) to multiple shots.

He also suggested that parents wait until their children are 12 or older to take the hepatitis B vaccine that helps prevent li

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