For Nearly 20 Years, Poor Kids Were More Likely to Get Riskier MMRV Vaccine

For Nearly 20 Years, Poor Kids Were More Likely to Get Riskier MMRV Vaccine

Poor children were more likely than those with private insurance to receive the combined MMRV…

Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Parents used to be able to choose whether to have their young children get the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and the varicella (chickenpox) vaccines separately, or get the combined MMRV vaccine. That changed last month, when the CDC, citing the increased risk of febrile seizures, removed that option and formally recommended that all children under age 4 receive the vaccines in two separate shots.

But before the agency changed the recommendation, poor children were more likely to get the MMRV vaccine than children who were covered by private insurance, according to Dr. Monique Yohanan.

In an op-ed published this week in Deseret News, Yohanan, senior fellow for health policy at Independent Women, said the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop endorsing the MMRV vaccine exposes a tension in U.S. vaccine policy…

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