President Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different shots. Trump has long suspected that the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. Childhood vaccines, and how and when to give them, go through rigorous studies and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.
The Centers for Disease Control says 30 states now have reported measles outbreaks. Alaska and Ohio are the newest states to be added to the list.
Health officials in southern Washington state say they have confirmed 53 cases of measles.