CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines

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CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly, misinformation-filled meeting
In a chaotic meeting on Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired in June and replaced with a group that has larg...

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As vaccine panel prepares hepatitis B review, CDC and industry experts are excluded
CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
Kennedy’s handpicked CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccin...

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US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet
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CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis vaccine changes
Hepatitis B infant shot: Health experts concerned over potential changes in vaccine panel's guidance
At least 1,400 children each year could get a hepatitis B infection if the initial jab given to infants at birth was delayed by two months, according to an analysis done by researchers and public heal...

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CDC vaccine panel delays hepatitis B vote amid chaotic meeting
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Data supports current US policy of hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, as officials push for change

An independent review by vaccine experts found that long-standing U.S. policy of giving the hepatitis B vaccine to newborns has cut infections in children by more than 95%.
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Former CDC, FDA Chiefs Decry Vaccine Policy Changes as ACIP Meeting Begins

Writing in separate editorials in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association, former chiefs of federal scientific agencies issued warnings about the changes being proposed to vaccine frameworks by current officials.
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Kennedy Shakes Up CDC Leadership Over Vaccine Safety, Efficacy Proof

Major changes are underway at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following President Trump’s and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s dismissal of director Susan Monarez and the subsequent resignations of ...
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CDC panel eyes more changes to child vaccine schedule

The CDC’s vaccine advisors, led by a newly named chair, will discuss making more changes to the childhood vaccine schedule during a 2-day meeting that starts on Thursday. The meeting was scheduled to take place in October but was postponed because of the government shutdown.
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