Data supports current US policy of hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, as officials push for change

Why The Hepatitis B Birth Dose Is At Risk From New CDC Vaccine Advisors

New members of the CDC vax advisory committee (ACIP) are opposed to newborn Hepatitis B vaccine, believing them not needed for most, and dangerous. Data contradicts that.

Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting

Sen. Bill Cassidy said federal health officials might be biased agains science.

HHS vaccine advisory panel to determine hepatitis B vaccine scheduling for children

The vaccine advisory panel will debate and possibly delay the vaccine for the hepatitis B virus

CDC About To Kill Lifesaving Hep B Vaccine For Newborns, Puritan Idiots Rejoice

In 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a mandate requiring that all newborn babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine, reversing a prior recommendation to only give it to newborns at high risk of infection. Before that mandate, there were approximately 18,000 cases of hepatitis B in children under the age of ten — 9,000 of whom contracted it from their mothers at birth. This was a bad thing.Ninety percent of those newb…

What to know about the hepatitis B shot — and why Trump officials are targeting it

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.

US vaccine committee’s hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet

NEW YORK — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will vote this week on whether to delay hepatitis B shots for most American children, the new chair of the committee said, a move that would be the most consequential change since the health secretary began remaking vaccine policy.