US EditionAmerican Medical Association trustee denounces CDC panel’s vaccine vote as ‘reckless’
The federal panel voted 8-3 to limit hepatitis B vaccine at birth to infants of mothers who test positive or are untested, sparking state-level opposition.
- 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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Vaccines save kids’ lives
Having worked as a pediatrician in Maryland my entire adult life, I am exasperated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns until two months of age (“US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth,” Dec. 5). This is wrong, and puts vulnerable infants at risk for a life-threatening disease that causes cirr…
CDC panel passes recommendation to change hepatitis B vaccine...
A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday voted in favor of reversing long-held guidance for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations. After months of delay, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of lifting the recommendation that all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccinations at birth, the most sweeping change to the childhood vaccine schedule since Health Secreta…
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the decades-old recommendation that all babies in the United States receive the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they are born.
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Former CDC exec shares biggest concerns over panel’s hepatitis B vote
Former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s policies, details her concerns over the CDC vaccine advisory panel’s vote to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns.
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