{"id":14799,"date":"2025-09-19T04:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:15:19","slug":"cdph-and-west-coast-health-alliance-release-statement-responding-to-acip-updates-to-national-vaccine-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/?p=14799","title":{"rendered":"CDPH and West Coast Health Alliance Release Statement Responding to ACIP Updates to National Vaccine Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Calls for Scientific Rigor and Maintaining Vaccine Choice for Families<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th>&nbsp;<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What You Need to Know:<\/strong>&nbsp;State health officials from California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington issued a statement in response to federal ACIP meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th>&nbsp;<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SACRAMENTO<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The state health officials of the members of the West Coast Health Alliance issued the following statement on outcomes of the&nbsp;Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the September 18-19th ACIP meeting, committee members did not employ standard scientific methods to evaluate information presented to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACIP recommendations on measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine and proposed tabled recommendations on Hepatitis B limit patient choice and access to vaccines with disproportionate impact on children receiving immunizations through Vaccines for Children (VFC).&nbsp;No new safety or efficacy data were presented to form the basis of these recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West Coast Health Alliance (WCHA) affirms the pre-existing and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendation that parents have an option to choose whether their child receives separate (MMR + V) or combined (MMRV) vaccines for children less than 4 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restoring a process for systematically reviewing the evidence and a framework for translating the evidence into recommendations will restore scientific rigor and transparency and maintain vaccine choice for all families.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Department of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawaii State Department of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon Health Authority<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington State Department of Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for Scientific&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}