The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially updated guidelines for COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccines based on recommendations made last month by the agency's vaccine advisory committee, whose members were hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this year.

In a news release Monday, the CDC said it updated it's adult and child immunization schedules to apply "individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination." It also now recommends that toddlers receive protection from varicella, or chickenpox, as a standalone immunization, rather than in combination with measles, mumps and rubella vaccination.

"Informed consent is back," Jim O'Neill, acting director of the CDC and deputy secretary of Health and Human Services,

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