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Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization
The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.
The topics of discussion at Tuesday’s meeting were not based on new data or evidence, and in fact, two ACIP members, Joseph Hibbeln and Cody Meissner, as well as several representatives from professional medical organizations who were in attendance, questioned why these changes were up for consideration. John Su, acting director of the Immunization Safety Office at CDC, said during the meeting that ACIP chair Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and professor at Harvard Medical School until he was dismissed in 2024, requested a presentation on the MMRV vaccine and febrile seizures. Ari Brown, a pediatrician in Texas and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, which opted to not send a representative to Thursday’s meeting, says that while febrile seizures can be scary for parents, they are benign and relatively common in young children when they have a rising fever.
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