Kennedy’s vaccine advisers change COVID shot guidance, calling them an individual choice, P9
- Shidonna Raven
- May 4
- 1 min read
By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Updated September 19, 2025
Source: Associate Press
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They recommended that for children under 4, their first dose of protection against MMR — measles, mumps and rubella — and chickenpox should be in separate shots, not a combination version known as MMRV. Since 2009, the CDC has said it prefers separate shots for initial doses of those vaccines and 85% of toddlers already do.
On Friday, the committee also recommended that the government’s Vaccines for Children program — which covers vaccine costs for about half of U.S. kids — align its guidance with that narrower MMRV usage.
President Donald Trump was asked Friday if he was comfortable with the CDC advisers’ recommendation or if he’d like Americans to take the shots that were developed under his Operation Warp Speed at the height of the pandemic. Trump, who got the virus in October 2020 before the vaccine was available, said he remained “very proud” of Operation Warp Speed, and was not upset that Kennedy was skeptical of the vaccine.
“I had the vaccine and I was very happy with it,” Trump said.
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