{"id":10368,"date":"2025-09-24T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10368"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:04:47","slug":"amid-confusion-over-us-vaccine-recommendations-states-try-to-restore-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/amid-confusion-over-us-vaccine-recommendations-states-try-to-restore-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Confusion Over US Vaccine Recommendations, States Try To \u2018Restore Trust\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/vaccines-states-hhs-cdc-acip-recommendations-rfk\/\">KFF<\/a> When the CDC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel-covid-19-hepatitis-b-vaccines\/\">Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices<\/a>\u00a0met last week, confusion filled the room. Members admitted they didn\u2019t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Jim O\u2019Neill, the deputy health and human services secretary and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s acting director (a lawyer, not a doctor), must sign off. The panel\u2019s recommendations matter, because insurers and federal programs rely on them, but they are not binding. States can follow the recommendations, or not.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF When the CDC\u2019s\u00a0Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u00a0met last week, confusion filled the room. Members admitted they didn\u2019t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding. Now Jim O\u2019Neill, the deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10369,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}