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A Republican Senator is lashing out at President Donald Trump over his recent claim that “nothing bad can happen” by splitting up the childhood vaccine schedule.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) ripped the president for comments made during an executive order signing Tuesday in which he said he wants to split the MMR measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into separate shots. Despite vehement objections from top physician organizations, Trump falsely claimed the combined MMR shot could be “quite lethal,” and added that “separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal.”
“Nothing bad can happen from what we’re doing,” Trump claimed. “Nothing bad could happen. The worst thing that would happen would be nothing happens. We’re not gonna lose anything. At the same time, we could gain tremendous, we could save hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of lives.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Cassidy to weigh in on those comments from Trump, and the Republican senator teed off.
“If it wasn’t so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing at a comment like that. But let’s just take it 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. Instead of the child getting two jabs, they get six jabs. Instead of mom or dad missing work twice, you know, coming out of their pocket, if will, to take their child to the doctor. They have to miss work or take vacation or personal leave six times. This is inconvenient. It’s going to contribute to an increased loss of income. By the way, instead of the insurance company paying for two doctor’s visits, they’re paying for six, which is going to ultimately drive up premiums going after affordability. And it will do nothing for things like autism.
“So, in fact, it will be counterproductive. And so it is wrong on so many levels, and this is, frankly, why I think the president’s accused of losing focus on affordability. This is working backwards on afford ability. By the way, Maha wants fewer jabs, not more. This substitutes two jabs with six jabs. And so even the people he’s trying to appeal to have to scratch their head and think, what in the hell is going on here? So the president is wrong. There’s a lot of bad things that will come out of this.”
Tapper pressed Cassidy on Trump’s comment that the combined MMR vaccine could be “quite lethal.”
“You’ve said someone needs to stand up to ‘crazy, stupid things’ being said that undermine faith and immunization,” Tapper told Cassidy. “Is President Trump saying some of these crazy stupid things?”
“Yeah,” Cassidy said. “That’s a crazy, stupid thing!”
Watch above, via CNN.
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