This isn’t correct. They voted to recommend against the MMRV vaccine which MMR + Smallpox vaccine. Typically for under 4’s these are done separately in something like 85% of cases unless the parent specifically requests them together.
You’re right that this isn’t about MMR but MMRV, I hadn’t looked into what the V was but it’s chickenpox (varicella), not smallpox. The article doesn’t make any mention of an MMR only vaccine, I would assume that they don’t do one anymore and it has been supplanted by MMRV.
The story here is that they initially removed the recommendation for children under 4, but upheld it for free vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program. Then, the following day they re-did the vote again to cancel that exemption. As the Vaccines for Children is a federal program, they follow the recommendations so this means that they’ve cancelled pretty much all free MMRV vaccines.
This isn’t correct. They voted to recommend against the MMRV vaccine which MMR + Smallpox vaccine. Typically for under 4’s these are done separately in something like 85% of cases unless the parent specifically requests them together.
So not much is changing regarding the MMR vaccine
You’re right that this isn’t about MMR but MMRV, I hadn’t looked into what the V was but it’s chickenpox (varicella), not smallpox. The article doesn’t make any mention of an MMR only vaccine, I would assume that they don’t do one anymore and it has been supplanted by MMRV.
The story here is that they initially removed the recommendation for children under 4, but upheld it for free vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program. Then, the following day they re-did the vote again to cancel that exemption. As the Vaccines for Children is a federal program, they follow the recommendations so this means that they’ve cancelled pretty much all free MMRV vaccines.