Trump orders Pentagon to scrap modern jet launching tech on new US aircraft carrier and revert to steam catapults – as it happened

President Trump has signed a new executive order on vaccines, though The Guardian reports it does not actually change existing US vaccine recommendations. The order attempts to reinstate sweeping changes to the vaccine schedule that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the Health and Human Services secretary and a longtime vaccine opponent — pushed through earlier this year, before a federal judge halted them. Per The Guardian, experts warn the order still creates confusion and doubt about vaccines, which they say will lead to more illness, and possibly deaths, among children, making it harder for families and pediatricians to protect them.

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