"President Donald Trump repeatedly exaggerated the number of vaccines recommended for small children, comparing it with vaccinating a horse. "They give - I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid?" Trump first said Sept. 21 during an Air Force One press gaggle. "Even beyond the actual ingredients, they have sometimes 80 different vaccines ... It's like you're shooting up a horse.""
"He used the number four more times during a Sept. 22 press conference in which he also pushed an unproven link between autism and Tylenol. "You have a little child, little fragile child, that you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends, and they pump it in," he said. Then again: "It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines and 80. Then you give that to a little kid.""
Trump claimed children receive about 80 different vaccines and likened it to "shooting up a horse." The White House did not explain the origin of the number. Researchers tallied recommended childhood vaccines for ages 10 and under by formulations, diseases covered, total doses, and physical injections. No counting method came close to 80. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention schedule lists 11 vaccines for children 10 and younger. During a child’s first year the CDC recommends seven different vaccine formulations plus an annual influenza vaccine.
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