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American Medical Association trustee denounces CDC panel’s vaccine vote as ‘reckless’
The American Medical Association says the new federal guidance ignores vaccine effectiveness data and risks confusing parents about newborn hepatitis B immunization.
- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to limit the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose to infants whose mothers test positive or who are not tested.
- Firing and replacing the panel's members prompted some states, including Illinois, to issue their own vaccine recommendations in recent months after all current ACIP members were appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- The Chicago-based American Medical Association called the decision 'reckless' and said the committee recommended leaving vaccination to parents and doctors for infants of mothers who test negative, with the first dose at 2 months if declined.
- Massachusetts said it will continue to recommend the birth dose, and Gov. JB Pritzker signed a state immunization guidelines law this week, enabling divergent policies in states including Illinois.
- For more than three decades the birth dose has been recommended as a key protection, described as one of the safest, most effective tools to prevent lifelong infection and severe liver disease.
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Massachusetts will continue to recommend that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a controversial vote by a federal vaccine panel, the Healey administration said Friday.
·Springfield, United States
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Chicago-based American Medical Association slams committee’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations
The Chicago-based American Medical Association is blasting a federal vaccine advisory committee’s decision Friday to no longer recommend that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine when they’re born. The committee’s decision “is reckless and undermines decades of public confidence in a proven, lifesaving vaccine,” said Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, an American Medical Association trustee in a statement Friday morning. “Today’s action is not based…
·Chicago, United States
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