A new vaccine advisory panel hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to change its MMRV vaccine recommendation for young kids.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Thursday to no longer recommend the MMRV vaccine — which protects against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) — for children younger than four. Instead, the panel recommends that kids in that age group should get the MMR vaccine and the chickenpox vaccine separately.
