The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is changing its guidelines for the COVID-19 vaccine and the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine (MMRV) to match new recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

These changes are based on the advisories from a two-day meeting of the ACIP in September, which were then approved by the acting director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O'Neill.

The COVID-19 vaccine will now be recommended on an "individual-based decision-making" basis for people under age 65.

"It means that the clinical decision to vaccinate should be based on patient characteristics that, unlike age, are difficult to incorporate in recommendations, including risk factors for the underlying disea

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