Bengaluru: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said it had adopted recommendations from a panel of outside advisors without change, including that COVID-19 vaccines should be administered through shared decision-making with a healthcare provider .

The new recommendation maintains access for the shot through health insurance.

The recommendations come at a turbulent time for the CDC , which recently saw the ouster of its former Director Susan Monarez after resisting changes to vaccine policy advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The acting director of the CDC, Jim O'Neill, also signed off on its advisers' recommendations against use of the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before the age of 4 years. Instead, separate shots will

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