Vaccine Shakeups, Brain Injury Warnings and Boozy Chimps

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  Happy Monday, listeners. I'm Rachel Feldman.

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  Let's kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest science news.

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  First, let's check in on vaccines.

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  On Thursday and Friday of last week,

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  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,

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  or ACIP, met to review and vote on recommendations for official U.S. vaccine guidelines.

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  Back in June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S.

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  Department of Health and Human Services, dismissed all sitting members of the committee.

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  Several of the 12 new panel members, all of whom were handpicked by Kennedy,

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  have publicly expressed doubts about the safety of vaccines or the severity of the COVID pandemic.

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  An agenda released ahead of last week's meeting stated that the ACIP would propose recommendations for the hepatitis B,

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  COVID, and measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccines.

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  Here's Lauren Young, associate editor for Health and Medicine at Scientific American,

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  with a quick update as of Friday.

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  So far we've seen a few votes come through.

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  The first one that they focused on was the MMRV vaccine.

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  This is the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine.

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  Varicella is commonly known as chickenpox.

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  And they decided not to recommend the single combined shot for kids younger than age four.

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  Another vaccine that was discussed was the hepatitis B vaccine.

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