CDC Advisers Make Their First Childhood Vaccine Edit

ATLANTA — Federal vaccine advisers voted Thursday to roll back a childhood vaccine recommendation, marking the first change to the routine immunization schedule under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is helming a broad review of vaccines he has maligned for years.

In an 8-3 vote, with one member abstaining, the 12-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices handpicked by Kennedy recommended skipping a combination measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine — given to about 15 percent of children receiving their first dose of vaccination for those diseases — until a child is at least 4. The combination vaccine — which is different from the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine that children more commonly receive — has typically been administered to children between 12 and 15 months of age.