Dr. Omer Awan
wrote, "But this week, acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill echoed Trump’s statement and posted on X, “I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and ‘break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots.’...If the U.S. were to force manufacturers to split the MMR vaccine three ways and formally recommend delaying the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine until the age of 12, then the government would be responsible for outbreaks of potentially deadly diseases on a scale the country has not seen in decades...Multiple devastating diseases that can lead to blindness, deafness, infertility, cancer and death will surge, all because of baseless recommendations that are not rooted in science."
TheHill reported, "“So it would increase the cost of the vaccination program to no benefit. As a matter of fact, we can predict just [as] the sunrises in the east and sets in the west, that there would be more missed vaccine appointments,” [epidemiologist William] Schaffner said. “I cannot think of a single benefit of splitting up these vaccines. It was a terrific scientific triumph to be able to put them all together.”"