GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy slams Trumps childhood vaccine order, warns kids may die: crazy, stupid

WASHINGTON — Outgoing GOP Sen.Bill Cassidy laced into President Trump’s executive order last week requiring measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines to be administered to children separately.Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), warned Trump’s executive order will have severe repercussions for children.“If it wasn’t so potentially tragic, it would break out laughing at a comment like that,” Cassidy told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday about Trump’s remark that “nothing bad” can come from his executive order.“From the perspective of the parent, now, instead of going to the doctor twice to get their child vaccinated, they have to go six times,” he went on before later adding: “There’s a lot of bad things that will come out of this.”“This has the potential to decrease the protection that a child would receive against diseases which can be deadly.”The physician, who set up a program to help vaccinate school kids in his native Louisiana, raised concerns that by potentially increasing the number of visits parents have to make to the doctor to get their children vaccinated, costs will rise and the burden of taking more time out of work could mean fewer children get the jabs.Cassidy, a trained gastroenterologist, has long been at odds with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.on vaccines, particularly over the scion’s concerns about possible links to autism, which many medical experts have long disputed.While signing the executive order, Trump claimed that MMR vaccines — the three-in-one shots against measles, mumps, and rubella — could be “quite lethal” and “sort of like a nuclear weapon.” The president further bizarrely stated that the vaccine was “the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child’s body, and bad things happen in many too many cases.”“Yeah, that’s a crazy, stupid thing,” Cassidy bluntly said ...