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Subject:CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination
for Chickenpox in Toddlers - HERE"S THE OFFICIAL APPROVAL OF THE NEW GUIDANCE RECOMMENDED BY
ACIP! Will Monica Soderstrom EDUCATE Butte County?
Date:Tuesday, October 7, 2025 2:04:29 AM
For Public Record and Public Comment
The Deputy Director approved the ACIP recommendations and the CDC has updated their
official adult & children vaccination schedules.
WHEN WILL BUTTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE THEIR INFORMATION?
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2025/cdc-immunization-schedule-adopts-individual-
based-decision.html
Release
For immediate release: October 6, 2025
CDC Media Relations
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https://www.cdc.gov/media/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child
immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination
and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone
immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.
The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the
CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O'Neill. The schedules will be
updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.
"Informed consent is back," said Deputy Secretary O'Neill. "CDC's 2022 blanket
recommendation for perpetual COVID-19 boosters deterred health care providers from talking
about the risks and benefits of vaccination for the individual patient or parent. That changes
today.
"I commend the doctors and public health experts of ACIP for educating Americans about
important vaccine safety signals. I also thank President Trump for his leadership in making
sure we protect children from unintended side effects during routine immunization."
Unlike the COVID-19 primary series vaccination pioneered by Operation Warp Speed (OWS)
that reached a estimated nearly 85% of the U.S. adult population, just 23% of adults followed
the CDC's most recent seasonal booster recommendation according to its National
Immunization Survey. The booster shots prompted widespread risk-benefit concerns about
their safety and efficacy as the COVID-19 virus became endemic following population-wide
immunity acquired during the pandemic and OWS.
ACIP's recommendation emphasized that the risk-benefit of vaccination in individuals under
age 65 is most favorable for those who are at an increased risk for severe COVID-19 and
lowest for individuals who are not at an increased risk, according to the CDC list of COVID-
19 risk factors. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing authorization
for COVID-19 vaccines for individuals who have one or more of these risk factors, as well as
for individuals age 65 and older.
Individual-based decision-making is referred to on the CDC's immunization schedules as
vaccination based on shared clinical decision-making, which references providers including
physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. It means that the clinical decision to vaccinate should be
based on patient characteristics that unlike age are difficult to incorporate in
recommendations, including risk factors for the underlying disease as well as the
characteristics of the vaccine itself and the best available evidence of who may benefit from
vaccination.
Like routine recommendations, individual-based-decision-making allows for immunization
coverage through all payment mechanisms including entitlement programs such as the
Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children
Program, as well as insurance plans regulated by the Affordable Care Act.
The CDC child and adolescent immunization schedule's new recommendation of standalone
chickenpox vaccination for toddlers through age three follows evidence presented to ACIP by
the CDC Immunization Safety Office's that healthy 12–23 months old toddlers have increased
risk of febrile seizure seven to 10 days after vaccination for the combined measles, mumps,
rubella, and varicella vaccine compared to those given immunization for chickenpox
separately. The combination vaccine doubles the risk of febrile seizures without conferring
additional protection from varicella compared to standalone vaccination.
WILL BUTTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNICATE THIS NEW GUIDANCE?
Julie Threet
VAERS VICTIM ADVOCATE
510-358-7520