WASHINGTON —

A CDC advisory committee, selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is meeting to discuss new recommendations for vaccine usage, including the MMRV vaccine and COVID-19 vaccines.

The committee, which includes several anti-vaccine voices, is advising the CDC director on how already approved vaccines should be used.

On the first day of the meeting, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that the MMRV vaccine should not be given to children before age 4, suggesting separate vaccines for MMR and varicella, or chickenpox, instead.

The committee postponed a vote on hepatitis B shots for newborns. On Friday, it’s expected to decide whether to recommend that some babies can wait a month for those shots.

The panel is also expected

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