“A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” said Kennedy in a statement at the time. Now the ACIP is turning its attention to the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella), COVID-19, and hepatitis B vaccines. “As of this writing, after protracted confusion, the committee has voted in a contradictory way on the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine. On hepatitis B, the vaccine has been in use in newborn babies for many years and is considered safe. “Newborns infected with hepatitis B at birth and infants infected in the first year of life have a 90 percent chance of developing chronic hepatitis B, and 25 percent of those who develop chronic hepatitis B will die from the disease,” Wood explained.