ACIP Votes to Recommend Kids Don’t Get MMRV Vaccine Until Age 4, Delays Vote on Hep B for Newborns

ACIP Votes to Recommend Kids Don’t Get MMRV Vaccine Until Age 4, Delays Vote on Hep B for Newborns

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Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

ACIP voted on two recommendations related to the MMRV vaccine to conclude the first day of its meeting.

The first vote, on whether the pediatric vaccine schedule should be updated to say that the MMRV vaccine is not recommended for children under age 4, passed by a vote of 7-4. Malone abstained. He said he had no conflicts of interest, but he had previously agreed not to vote on the MMRV vaccine because of his participation as an expert witness in a whistleblower lawsuit against Merck.

Amid significant confusion expressed by some members of ACIP, who said they were not provided with the full text of what they were asked to vote on, the vote to approve the VFC proposal to change the eligible groups for the MMRV vaccine to children ages 4-12, was rejected, with 8 members voting no, one in favor, and three abstentions.

ACIP’s votes on the Hep B vaccine recommendations were postponed to tomorrow, due to a discrepancy between the ACIP recommendations and the VFC recommendations, which was apparently due to a technical error…

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