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The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 to recommend separate MMR and chickenpox shots for toddlers instead of a combined shot.

Experts are worried that this change could lead to fewer parents vaccinating their young children.

The concerns come on the heels of the unease many health professionals feel after RFK Jr. fired all previous ACIP members, and replaced them in some cases with outspoken vaccine skeptics.

A key committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to alter its recommendation on an early childhood vaccine, after a discussion that at times pitted vaccine skeptics against the CDC’s own data.

After an 8 to 3 vote with one absten

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