(18 Sep 2025)
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Atlanta – 18 September 2025
1. Wide of ACIP members voting on MMRV vaccine recommendation
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Minneapolis – 18 September 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Osterholm, Vaccine Integrity Project:
"Yeah, well, first of all, it’s a problem, or it’s a solution looking for a problem, OK? That I think is the most important point."
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Minneapolis – 18 September 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Osterholm, Vaccine Integrity Project:
"We have managed the MMRV vaccine situation for what, you know, a number of years without any, uh, issues in terms of safety."
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Atlanta – 18 September 2025
4. Wide of ACIP members voting on MMRV vaccine recommendation
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Minneapolis – 18 September 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Osterholm, Vaccine Integrity Project:
"All the information. There was no new information. The idea that they’re now going to restrict that vaccine potentially from a child or a parent because of something that’s not scientific. And that just goes against the whole approach of the ACIP in terms of science-based decision making."
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Atlanta – 18 September 2025
6. Various of ACIP members voting on MMRV vaccine recommendation
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Minneapolis – 18 September 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Osterholm, Vaccine Integrity Project:
"I think that the ACIP has already gotten to the point of being irrelevant in making medical recommendations for vaccine use in this country."
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Atlanta – 18 September 2025
8. Wide of ACIP members ending vote on MMRV recommendations
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Minneapolis – 18 September 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Osterholm, Vaccine Integrity Project:
"I mean, I think that people are now just beginning to understand the extent to which these decisions are going to impact their lives."
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Atlanta – 18 September 2025
10. Mid of ACIP members ending vote on MMRV recommendations
STORYLINE:
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee on Thursday recommended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopt new restrictions on a combination shot that protects against chickenpox as well as measles, mumps and rubella.
The panel advised that the vaccine known as MMRV not be given before age 4 and that children in this age group instead get separate vaccines — one against MMR and another for varicella, or chickenpox. The vote was 8-3, with one member abstaining.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices put off an expected vote on hepatitis B shots given to infants on the day they are born. On Friday — when it also takes up COVID-19 shots — it’s expected to decide whether to recommend that some babies can wait a month for those shots.
The committee makes recommendations to the CDC director on how already-approved vaccines should be used. CDC directors have almost always accepted those recommendations, which are widely heeded by doctors and guide vaccination programs.
Public health experts worry the votes will raise unwarranted concerns among parents. Kennedy, a leading antivaccine activist before becoming the nation’s top health official, has made or proposed numerous changes to the nation’s vaccine system, including firing the entire 17-member panel earlier this year and replacing it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.
AP video by Mary Conlon
AP produced by Javier Arciga
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