The vaccine orthodoxy took another minor hit as the CDC made a slight alteration to its Immunization Schedule by adopting “individual-based decision-making for COVID-19 vaccines” and recommending that children ages 3 and younger receive the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine as a standalone vaccination.
This long overdue correction for the COVID-19 vaccines means that universal booster mandates are dropped for all ages and informed consent with “shared clinical decision-making” will be placed at the center of the conversation, where it belongs.
What this means for the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine is that it will no longer be given as part of the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine.
According to pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro, this recent recommendation aligns “with long-standing safety guidance that already favored separate shots unless parents specifically preferred MMRV.”
While applauding the effort, Dr. Perro suggests that singling out the varicella component from the MMR combination injection “still misses the mark regarding providing a real in-depth analysis of the overall safety of the MMR” and may send a confusing and inaccurate message to parents that “the vaccines are safe and we just needed to separate out the varicella portion.”
“That is not the reality,” she said.
Dr. Perro also applauded informed consent for COVID-19 vaccination as “a step in the right direction,” while raising the question, “Will parents be aware of the data showing significant morbidity and mortality from the COVID-19 shots?”
Although this latest move by the CDC doesn’t reveal the manipulation that is the CDC vaccine "schedule" or eliminate all vaccine mandates, especially those for kids, what it does do is open the door even further for conversations that dismantle the entire vaccine religion.
The narrative is cracking. Keep pushing.
