Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 19

Change the childhood vaccination schedule

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] Give smaller doses over a longer period of time.”
Promised
, Republican primary debate, Simi Valley, California
Re-promised
5 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Health care
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

The CDC childhood immunization schedule was not changed during the term. A vaccine safety commission discussed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in January 2017 was never established. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.

Sources

  1. Change the vaccination schedule for children PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020