President Donald Trump has ordered agencies to take heed of a government document that outlines how the United States recommends more vaccines than other countries.
The May 29 executive order also directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and its advisory panel on vaccines, to take action.
Here’s what to know about the order.
‘Guiding Resource’
Trump called the document, a scientific assessment authored by two government scientists, “a guiding resource for the Federal Government.” He said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the CDC’s advisory panel on vaccines, known as ACIP, must review the assessment and recent clinical data and “to the extent permitted by law, take any appropriate steps to update the United States childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule.”…