Donald Trump is all for vaccines, but only bit by bit.
“I am totally in favor of vaccines, but I want smaller doses over a longer period of time,” Trump said during the Republican presidential primary Wednesday night in California.
Trump said he was disgusted at the thought of taking a beautiful baby and injecting him or her with a syringe that “looks like it was meant for a horse, not meant for a child.”
Trump’s closest competitor, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, also said he is in favor of vaccines, but with a caveat.
“Vaccines are very important, certain ones,” Carson said without elaborating. “There are others that probably don’t fit into that category, and there should be some discretion in those cases.”
Carson did note that pediatricians are starting to space out the vaccines administered to children so they don’t take too many at one time.
The questions at the debate came as California moved to restrict personal and religious exemptions to vaccines. That state law was a response to a measles outbreak in Disneyland last year was mostly caused by parents who did not vaccinate their children.
