Health experts have expressed grave concern after a panel of RFK-appointed advisers voted to recommend against administering combination vaccines to young children.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, made up of officials appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted on Thursday to stop recommending the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine to children under the age of 4.

Instead, young children should be given the MMR vaccine separately from the varicella vaccine, which targets chickenpox.

The vote was part of a meeting on official vaccine recommendations that included a delay on another vote surrounding the use of hepatitis B vaccines on newborns. Within the meeting, “near chaos” ensued, The New York Times re

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