RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel defers vote on hepatitis B shot for babies until Friday
The CDC panel postponed its vote amid confusion and disputes over changing the 34-year-old policy, with hepatitis B vaccination preventing over 6 million infections since 1994.
- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices delayed a vote on hepatitis B shots for newborns due to confusion about the voting language and concerns from committee members.
- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s committee is considering recommending the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis B.
- Committee member Vicky Pebsworth stated that a work group assessed the necessity of a birth dose when mothers test negative for hepatitis B.
- U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy criticized the committee's credibility on social media, stating that the ACIP is 'totally discredited.
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CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination in tense meeting
In a meeting punctuated by conflict and confusion, the independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday again delayed a vote that could dramatically change hepatitis B vaccination practice in the United States.
Vaccine panel again delays vote on hepatitis B shot for newborns | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
ATLANTA >> Accusations that presenters were cherry-picking data and substituting speculation for science derailed a federal vaccine advisory panel vote this morning on whether to change a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
CDC again delays vote on hepatitis vaccine recommendation
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel that advises the agency on recommendations for vaccines delayed a planned vote Thursday on changes for the hepatitis B shot long recommended for newborns, putting off a decision with major implications for the Bay Area. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has scrutinized the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, as part of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to …
Kennedy advisers delay vote to drop hepatitis B vaccine recommendation, a major policy shift
Vaccine advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday delayed a vote until Friday that could scrap the U.S. recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for all children, a move that would be the health secretary's most consequential vaccine policy change yet.
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