Senior officials of the World Health Organization, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, criticized the Trump administration’s newest attempt to trigger an overhaul of U.S. vaccination policy on Wednesday, calling it politically motivated and contradictory to the best available science.
The critique was aimed at an executive order signed by President Trump on Monday. It calls for a reduction in the number of vaccinations recommended for all children in the U.S., and for the use of vaccines targeting single pathogens rather than the combination vaccines now in use, starting with the measles, mumps, and rubella shot.
