RFK Jr’s vaccine committee changed its MMRV recommendations
The key committee of the US Disease Control and Prevention Centers voted on Thursday to change the advice of an early childhood vaccine after a discussion that attracted the CDC’s vaccine suspects against its own data.
After 8 to 3 voting with a abstain, the CDC vaccination applications Advisory Committee will no longer recommend that children under 4 years of age receive a single -firing vaccine for mumps, measles, measles and chickenpox (known as better suics pox).
Instead, the CDC will recommend that children between 12 and 15 months old age will receive two separate shots at the same time: one for mumps, measles and rubella (mmr) and the other for chickenpox.
The first vote of the committee’s two -day meeting represents a relatively small change in existing vaccination practices. On Friday, the committee will vote for the proposed changes in childhood hepatitis B and Covid vaccines.
However, doctors said that the lack of expertise and vaccine skepticism exhibited during most of the discussion will only dilute the confidence in science and public health guidance.
On Thursday, President of the American Pediatrics Academy. Sean O’leary, a Zoom press conference on Thursday, said, “This meeting was already the main goal of this meeting, and this was to instill fear and fear between parents and families.”
“What we saw at the meeting today was not a really good effort to create a policy of vaccination for the benefit of the Americans today. Frankly, it was an alarming attempt to weaken one of the most successful public health systems in the world,” he said. “The idea that our current vaccine policies are broken or needs a radical revision is simply wrong.”
In the same shooting, MMR and Chickenpox vaccines are associated with a higher risk of seizures higher than high fever for children under the age of 4 – eight in 10,000, at the same time, at the same time, there are also febril seizures compared to four out of 10,000 people.
The seizures, which are troubled by family members to witness, are relatively widespread side effects for high fever in young children and are not associated with long -term results.
Meissner is that the problem with the division of vaccines into multiple attraction is typically leading to a lower vaccine compatibility. And the risks of not being vaccinated are real.
“We are looking for the risk-perfect health of febrile seizures … When compared to a 95% coverage rate for herd immunity, and its consequences are destructive, pregnant women lose their babies and have congenital cranberry syndrome,” he said.
Meissner, Hibbeln and Hilary Blackburn were the only three members who voted against change.
The meeting ended with the vote for the continuous scope of MMRV under the CDC. Vaccines for childrenA public service that provides vaccination almost half of the children of the country. The VFC currently covers only the shots recommended by ACIP.
While President Martin Kulldorff searched for the vote, a few committees complained that they did not understand the proposal. Three of them completely avoided the vote.
As the meeting left, members could only be heard when trying to clarify what they had voted.
The Committee also spent a few hours to discuss whether the child’s hepatitis B vaccine, a typical shot given at birth until a month, will delay the first dose. They’re gonna vote the offer on Friday.
The medical reason for changing Hepatitis B program was less.
During the discussion and public opinion period, the pediatrician is one of the children who will raise the point. Amy Middleman, “What is the problem of Hepatitis B discussion? As far as I know there was no negative results,” he said.
Committee Member Dr. Robert Malone said that changing the advice on when the children should be vaccinated for Hepatitis B would increase the confidence in the American public health messaging.
“An important population of the United States has significant concerns about the vaccination policy and vaccination powers. [particularly] Immediately ensuring this vaccine during birth, Mal Malone said. The signal that directs this is not security, but one of the confidence. “
Hepatitis B is usually asymptomatic and does not know that half of the infected people have half of them according to CDC. 85% of infants born for infected mothers are infected and the risk of long -term dangers than the disease is higher.
Babies infected with Hepatitis B virus in the first year of life 90% have the chance to develop chronic disease and 25% of those who do According to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Since the vaccine was introduced in 1991, Baby Hepatitis B infections 95% in the USA About 14,000 children According to CDC, hepatitis B infections were obtained between 1990 and 2002; Today, new annual infections in children close to zero.
This week’s two -day meeting came together for the second time since the committee Kennedy He fired the entire 17 ACIP members He was in June defined “As a clean sweep [that] It is necessary to re -establish the public confidence in vaccination science. “
The next day he selected seven new members for the committee and added the last five at the beginning of this week. New members include a few people criticized for spreading medical misinformation, as well as doctors who have relevant experiences in pediatrics, immunology and public health.
Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse who works as a research director for the National Vaccination Information Center, A long date Malone, who has been a series of vaccine experts who have contributed to early MRNA research, but since then False and discredited claims About Flu and Covid-19 shots.
In some cases, new ACIP members lack any medical or public health experience. For example, Retsef Levi is still a professor of operations management in MIT without a biomedical or clinical degree, a clearly anxiety critic of vaccines.
“Appointing members of anti-health groups to the policy determination committees in CDC and FDA raises them from eaves to the mainstream. They are not just on the table, they will be bad enough; Examined the role of NVIC Wrong information about the spread of vaccine. “This is the worst scenario.”
Although ACIP held three public meetings a year, he usually works throughout the year, he said. Dr. Paul OffitHe is the Vaccine Training Center Director at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital and a former ACIP member in the early 2000s.
Offit said that new suggestions to the vaccine program were written before the ACIP meetings in consultation with expert working groups who advised the committee members throughout the year. However, in August, medical groups, including the American Medical Association, American Pediatrics Academy and Infectious Diseases Association, Not invited anymore Review scientific evidence and advise the committee before the meeting.
The same month Kennedy, appointed by President Trump and approved by the Senate CDC Director Dr. Susan fired Monarez. Last Wednesday, Monarez Told to the Senate Committee Kennedy partially fired him because he refused to sign the changes he plans to make to the vaccination program this month without seeing scientific evidence for them.
He did not specify what these changes would be during the hearing.
ACIP’s suggestions only become official after the CDC director approves them. When Monarez is out, this responsibility is now going to the Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill, who is now the acting director of the CDC.
Asked for by journalists On Wednesday, the US people should rely on the changes proposed by Acıp to the childhood vaccination program, Sen. Bill Cassidy (rep. – la) blunt: “No”
Cassidy Presidents Senate Committee Controlling HHS and Use the Voting Vote For Kennedy’s candidacy. Before running for the office, Cassidy, a liver expert, created a public-private partnership. Unrequited Hepatitis B vaccines 36,000 Louisiana for his child.
Kennedy gave Cassidy specially promised to maintain the CDC vaccination program.
As the public trusted the integrity of CDC guidelines, alternative sources for information increased. American Pediatrics Academy early this year announced It will publish its own evidence -based vaccination program, which is different from CDCs from influenza and Covid shootings. And on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom He signed a law On the same day, he established a partnership with Oregon and Washington, which gives California the power to create his own vaccination program Publish common recommendations For Covid-19, Flu and RSV vaccines.
On Tuesday, many US health insurance association represented that members will continue to cover all the vaccines proposed by the previous ACIP regardless of the meeting on Thursday until the end of 2026.
“While health plans continue to operate in an environment shaped by federal and state laws, as well as program and customer requirements, the evidence -based approach will remain consistent with the scope of vaccines,” says America’s health insurance plans He said in a statement. The group includes large insurance companies such as Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Cigna and several blue groups. Unitedhealthcare, the country’s largest insurance company, is not a member.
It is not clear what to deal with after 2026.
