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The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vaccine recommendation committee has just published advice on which, if they were agitated, could revise when and how children receive vaccines designed to protect them from dangerous diseases such as measles, rubella and chickenpox.

The Consultative Committee for Vaccination Practices (ACIP) met on Thursday. In a vote of 8 to 3, they recommended against the use of the combined vaccine of measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (chickenpox) in children under four years of age. Instead, they now recommend that children only receive two separate vaccines covering these four diseases.

New Guard from Kennedy

The AIPI has traditionally been a range of independent experts organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help direct the country’s vaccine policy. Their recommendations, although not binding, have a significant weight; Many states require children to receive all the vaccines recommended by the AIPI before entering public schools, for example. But under the United States, the secretary of human services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., critics say that the ACIP has become a platform for skepticism of vaccines.

At the beginning of June, Kennedy unilaterally dismissed the 17 former members of the AIPI, then, without any external exam, appointed eight new members, some of whom have already distorted science on vaccine safety or who financed financially from the vaccine attack. Kennedy added five new members to the panel earlier this week, including some people who questioned the safety and efficiency of COVVI-19 vaccines.

During the last panel meeting in June, during a majority vote, the new members of Kennedy recommended the abolition of an additive based on Mercury called Thimérosal of the very rare vaccines that contain it. The recommendation was officially adopted by the government in July. Anti-vaccination supporters have long blamed Thimérosal in vaccines to provoke autism and other neurological conditions, even after having been suppressed from all childhood plans two decades ago by abundance of prudence. And dozens of studies have since failed to support any link between Thimérosal (or, moreover, any specific vaccine or ingredient) and autism.

Under the direction of Kennedy, the CDC was shaken by a series of high -level departures. The director of the centers, Susan Monarez, would have been dismissed for refusing to support the agenda of Kennedy vaccines – a decision which stimulated the resignation of several other senior executives of the CDC and an unprecedented public demonstration of support from the remaining employees.

Monarez testified during an audience in the Senate earlier this week, alleging that Kennedy had put it pressure on the recommendations of the rubber stamp of the ACIP. She also said Kennedy told her that the infant vaccine calendar would change in September and that she was to be “on board”.

What the last vote means for these vaccines

In what was his second meeting since Kennedy rejected the former members in June, the panel first debated the security of the measles vaccine, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (MMRV).

The MMRV vaccine was approved in 2005 as a practical alternative to children who benefit from the ROR vaccine and a chickenpox vaccine, providing protection against the four diseases at a time. Shortly after its release to the public, however, evidence emerged that the first dose of the MMRV vaccine is associated with a slightly increased risk of febrile crisis (crises caused by a fever) in children under four years compared to the MMR more chicken. Above all, an additional risk of crisis was not observed with the second dose of the mmrv vaccine given to older children.

The CDC was the first to discover and recognize this risk and has long recommended that, unless parents specifically require MMRV vaccines, young children should receive the variclla mmmr more as the first dose and the combined mmrv vaccine for the second dose. During the meeting of the ACIP on Thursday, CDC staff presented data showing that around 85% of parents choose MMR and a separate chickenpox vaccine as recommended for the first dose. But as some families may prefer that their children take fewer vaccines overall, parents have been informed that they could opt for one or the other vaccine strategy.

The febrile crises are certainly frightening for the parent and for the child. However, they are generally short -lived and are not often linked to longer -term health problems. In turn, the vast majority of these types of crises are not linked to vaccination but infections.

The long and the short is that this change is completely useless, since most parents follow the advice of the CDC and do not use the MMRV vaccine for the first dose. But the vote of the AIPI will effectively remove the right of a family to decide what young children receive-an ironic spell given the way in which anti-vaccination supporters often supervise their decision not to vacillate themselves or their children as an expression of freedom.

CDC personnel noted that the recommendation of the ACIP could affect the coverage of Medicaid of these vaccines, as well as the coverage offered by the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, a federal program that provides vaccines to families unable to afford it. And it is possible that some children who have received the MMRV vaccine will end up not receiving the two separate vaccines for a number of reasons.

That said, the AIPI voted “no” on the question of whether the VFC should modify its coverage in accordance with the new recommendation. This means that the program should stick to its existing coverage of the MMRV vaccine.

The AIPI also examined whether it should continue to recommend the universal vaccination of hepatitis B from birth – a policy approved for the first time by the group over 30 years ago. But due to a longer than expected meeting, the AIPI delayed its vote on the issue until tomorrow. The AIPI should also weigh on COVVI-19 vaccines tomorrow.