Kennedy’s vaccine panel votes to delay hepatitis B vote

Vax Panel Takes On COVID, Hep B, And MMRV Vaccines. Here’s What They Decided.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — a highly influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine panel — held discussions and votes over the past two days on a number of vaccinations.Specifically, the CDC panel discussed the MMRV, hepatitis B, and COVID vaccines.On the MMRV vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, the panel voted to delay the shot until a child is at least fo…

Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting

ATLANTA — Public health officials watched with dread as a panel shaped by the Trump administration took up an agenda to begin dismantling six decades of vaccination development and progress. But while the result seemed foretold, the debate was far from unanimous. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, met at a satellite campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because the agency’s headquarters were still smash…

Mass. pediatrician on possible changes to childhood vaccine recommendations

CDC advisors propose changes to MMR and chickenpox vaccine guidelines while postponing a Hepatitis B vote. Massachusetts may set its own vaccine policies.

What You Need to Know About Changes to Childhood Vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee voted to stop recommending the combination vaccine protecting against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox for children under the age of 4, indefinitely postponed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule, and moved away from a broad recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine during a chaotic two-day meeting. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] On Thursday, in a vote of 8 to 3 with one abstention,…

ACIP holds back on vote on hepatitis B vaccines for newborns

Committee supports improving the testing levels for all pregnant women; physicians question ACIP’s analysis methods.