The Illinois Department of Public Health is not adopting new federal child vaccine guidelines and will continue following recommendations by a leading pediatric medical group.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that calls for giving the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, better known as MMR, in three separate shots at three different appointments.
It also lowers recommendations for several vaccines such as Hepatitis A and B, meningococcal disease, the flu and COVID-19.
Even as the order calls for revised recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren.
Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement the executive order is a “thoughtless piece of paper” that “does not reverse decades of research and scientific evidence about protecting kids.”
