Republican Senator Cassidy Denounces Trump's 'Crazy, Stupid' Claims About MMR Vaccine Safety

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Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor who voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy as federal health secretary, denounced Trump's recent claims that the combined MMR vaccine is unsafe. Trump ordered changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, calling for two separate doses of three individual vaccines instead of two MMR shots, describing the combined vaccine as 'sort of like a nuclear weapon' that could be 'quite lethal'.