RFK Junior’s Vaccine Consultant Stop recommending MMRV vaccine for children under 4, delay votes on Hepatitis B shot
A panel of experts from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has voted for changing their recommendations that children under four years of age should be vaccinated against measles, kanthamala, rubella and varichela (MMRV), while hepatitis B vaccine will be delayed by a planned vote.
The Advisory Committee on vaccination practices voted for 8 to 3 (with one refrain) on Thursday to allow parents to choose a joint MMRV vaccine for children under four years of age. Instead, they recommend the use of a joint measles-pamps-rubella shot and the use of a separate one (also known as chickenpox) for varichela.
The panel of experts is between two days of meetings where they are reviewing the vaccine recommendations. They were expected to first vote for delay in Hepatitis B shot, until at least one month of votes till the age of at least one month. The vote was postponed by Friday morning and was pushed again.
However, the group voted for Hepatitis B in favor of testing all pregnant women. One vote on the Kovid -19 vaccine recommendations is expected to come later today.
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The combined MMRV shot was an option for children aged 12 months or older earlier, although the CDC already advises that separate MMR and Varicala vaccines are given vaccines under 4 years of age until the parents express preference for the joint shot.
The panel performed its decision based on the risk of the recovery of fever (an attack caused by fever), which sometimes occurs in children because they are given the first dose of joint vaccine, although it is rare.
According to CDC’s own data, these seizures only occur 10,000 per eight children who get joint MMRV shotsThere is also a very small risk of fever attack with split MMR and chickenpox vacancies – about 4 in 10,000.
This seizures can occur even when children have fever due to a disease – which includes infection from diseases like chickenpox or measles – and also Long -term damage usually does not cause,
In view of the vote, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said the CDC meeting promoted “misleading information” about childhood vaccines.
The president of the association said in a statement, “After today’s meeting, instead of emerging with clear guidance about vaccines, we know that we protect from serious diseases, families are left with confusion, anarchy and false information.”
The AAP said that the organization still sees both MMRV and Hepatitis B vaccine safe, and has not made any changes in their recommendations for those shots.
While the CDC is still recommending that people are vaccinated against all four of infectious diseases, the University of Suskechewan virologist Angela Rasmusen says that the decision will require parents to book additional vaccine appointments and their children sit through more shots. He said that a layer of difficulty may mean that some children are not vaccinated against the full slate of diseases, he said.
She says that the vaccine uttake in the US is already decreasing, and that an additional layer of difficulty would mean that more children will go away without thinking and will become ill.
“Adding another mechanism … To reduce the vaccine, there are going to be huge results in the context of measles epidemic that have been recently, and are actually running,” Rasmusen said.
None of the CDC votes directly affects the recommended use of those vaccines to the Canadian or border.
in Canada, National Advisory Committee on Vaccination (NACI) recommends Either the combined MMRV vaccine or MMR shot and at the age of 12 to 15 months separates the varicella vaccination, and 18 months or the second dose shortly before the child starts school.
