RKF Jr.'s hand-picked committee changed its recommendations for key childhood shots

"After an 8 to 3 vote with one abstention, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will no longer recommend that children under the age of 4 receive a single-shot vaccine for mumps, measles, rubella and varicella (better known as chicken pox). Instead, the CDC will recommend that children between the ages of 12 to 15 months receive two separate shots at the same time: one for mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) and one for varicella."

"But doctors said the lack of expertise and vaccine skepticism on display during much of the discussion would only further dilute public trust in science and public health guidance. 'I think the primary goal of this meeting has already happened, and that was to sow distrust and instill fear among parents and families,' said Dr. Sean O'Leary, chair of American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Infectious Diseases, during a Zoom press conference Thursday."

""What we saw today at the meeting was really not a good faith effort to craft immunization policy in the best interest of Americans. It was, frankly, an alarming attempt to undermine one of the most successful public health systems in the world," O'Leary said. "This idea that our current vaccine policies are broken or need a radical overhaul is simply false.""

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8–3 with one abstention to end recommending a combined MMRV single-shot for children under age 4. The committee will instead recommend two simultaneous injections at 12–15 months: one MMR and one varicella. The vote represents a relatively small change to current immunization schedules. Additional votes on childhood Hepatitis B and COVID vaccines are pending. Several doctors criticized the meeting for apparent lack of expertise and vaccine skepticism, warning that the proceedings could further erode public trust in science and public health guidance. The combined MMRV shot has been linked to a higher relative risk of brief febrile seizures in young children.

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