CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination
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The CDC has removed the functionality of the search tool for the Vaccines.gov website and practically all the information on vaccines that used to be there.
A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Boston Public Health Commission advises against using CDC as a reliable source after federal agency alters longstanding position on vaccines and autism.
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New Illinois law allows state to issue its own vaccine recommendations, independent of CDC
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed a law that creates a state-level framework for vaccine policy and access, in response to uncertainty from the Trump administration.
The bill signing comes ahead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee meeting later this week for an expected vote on potential changes to the childhood vaccination schedule and how hepatitis B shots are administered.
"We have real concerns and very little confidence that what they put out will be sound or based in science," Healey said.
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC’s principal deputy director.
An advisory committee overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory board will meet Thursday to discuss the medical guidance of the hepatitis B vaccine, which is currently given at birth.
Gov. Maura Healey is slamming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over statements he made relating to childhood vaccines and their potential links to autism.