Kennedy's advisory panel recommends new restrictions on MMRV vaccines

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UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee on Thursday recommended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopt new restrictions on a combination shot that protects against chickenpox as well as measles, mumps and rubella.

The panel advised that the vaccine known as MMRV not be given before age 4 and that children in this age group instead get separate vaccines — one against MMR and another for varicella, or chickenpox. The vote was 8-3, with one member abstaining.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices put off an expected vote on hepatitis B shots given to infants on the day they are born. On Friday, it’s expected to decide whether to recommend that some babies can wait a month for those shots, and to also take up COVID-19 shots.

The committee makes recommendations to the CDC director on how already-approved vaccines should be used. CDC directors have almost always accepted those recommendations, which are widely heeded by doctors and guide vaccination programs. Committee Chairman Martin Kulldorff said committee members aim to reassure the public and remove unnecessary risks and harms.

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-vaccines-acip-hepatitis-b-chickenpox-21623ff8ead38ae1b21db488ee82a1f8

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1. whatever happened to parents' rights to do what's best for their children. ya know...choice nt

[EdmondDantes_]

2. Sadly that's not as dumb as I was expecting

Obviously still incompetent, but given RFK Jr and his cohort, I could have seen them trying for worse.

[womanofthehills]

8. I have friends with young children who prefer to space vaccines wa

Rather than getting them all at once. So I see no problem with this.

[3catwoman3]

3. In 45 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner, I never saw anyone have a serious...

...reaction to a Hep B immunization. It is generally very benignly tolerated.

[Jack Valentino]

4. MY advisory panel recommends new restrictions on RFK JUNIOR....

and retroactive birth control for Ethel Kennedy in the year that this moron was conceived...

[C_U_L8R]

5. Got my vaccine today

The nurse at CVS said there’s been quite a rush… no one trusts Trump/Kennedy to do the right thing

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6. We got ours last week.

[Johonny]

7. Hopefully doctors ignore these recommendations

From heroin addicts and keep on doing the right thing.

RFK Jr is a dangerous and stupid asshole. He will kill your child.

[mcar]

9. So much for pro-life

Children are going to die because of this.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. These people are insane and evil

Insane in that they're getting their facts from YouTube videos, and evil in that they think that qualifies them to determine the life and possible deaths of millions of children.

There's a reason they're given together now, it's because it ensures the most people are fully vaccinated and in this case, the group matters more than the individual because the goal is herd immunity. People can't wrap their head around the idea of herd immunity being more important than the individual being vaccinated.