Instead, it proceeded with a separate vote that removed the MMRV shot for children under age 4 from the vaccine schedule. The ACIP panel crafts recommendations on vaccine policy for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The outcome of that re-do was to change the insurance coverage of the MMRV vaccine for low-income children. The committee voted 11 to 1 to table action on the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine, with Kulldorff as the lone dissent. Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group, founded by Kennedy before he became health secretary, has long targeted the hepatitis B vaccine recommendation, claiming the risk of illness is small for most babies and the vaccine can be harmful.