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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 largely expressed skepticism of vaccines — once again delayed an expected vote on hepatitis B vaccines.
The CDC advisory panel delayed an expected vote on hepatitis B vaccines again. NBC News’ Erika Edwards details what is driving the latest delay.
The two-day meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will also see a vote on whether parents, in consultation with healthcare providers, should be able to choose between giving newborns the hepatitis B vaccine at birth or waiting until at least two months,