ROCK ISLAND, Illinois (KWQC) - A CDC committee is changing its recommendations for when children should receive some vaccines, much to the dismay of pediatricians who say the changes aren’t backed by science.

The CDC panel was hand-picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic. This week, the committee determined the MMRV vaccine should not be administered before age 4, and that children should receive separate vaccines — one for MMR and another for chickenpox.

Friday, the committee was set to discuss whether babies should receive a hepatitis B shot when they’re born, and what the government should recommend about COVID vaccines.

Doctors are responding with outrage. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement saying the committee is promoting “false

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