FROM DAILY MAIL: Robert F Kennedy Junior’s hand-picked vaccine advisory panel has voted to revise the recommendation for major childhood vaccines.
In a decision Thursday, the panel voted 8-3, with one abstention, that children aged four and under should no longer be offered the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine.
Instead, it said that the children should be given the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and varicella, or chickenpox, shots separately.
The move does not withdraw approval for either vaccine but may leave parents struggling to secure the combined shot for young children as the CDC recommends that the first shot of MMR and varicella be administered separately, except at a parent’s request for the combined version.
CDC’s new vaccine advisers recommend splitting up MMRV shot — https://t.co/T3ppZQXGKV pic.twitter.com/ARVaSKo3BQ
— Roll Call (@rollcall) September 19, 2025
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