Fallout from CDC panel’s vote on hepatitis B vaccine

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CDC panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth — as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years — the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus.

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CDC advisory panel expected to vote on hepatitis B vaccine for newborns
Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns
How RFK Jr., CDC recommendations could limit hepatitis B vaccine
An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will vote Dec. 5 whether to recommend that children should be vaccinated against the highly infectious hepatitis B virus at birth o...

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CDC Panel Ends Call for All Newborns to Get Hepatitis B Vaccine
US Vaccine Advisers Say Not All Babies Need a Hepatitis B Shot at Birth
4 fact-checks after CDC vaccine panel ends universal newborn hep B vaccine recommendations
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ new recommendations say mothers who tested negative for hepatitis B should discuss the need for the vaccine with their doctors.

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US vaccine panel votes to end recommendation for hepatitis B jabs for newborns
CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants

Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses Heb B vaccine recommendation

Federal vaccine advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have voted to eliminate a recommendation that all babies be vaccinated against hepatitis B on the day of birth. The decision was made with no evidence of harm from that dose and no evidence of any benefit from the delay.

Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat

As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.