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Vaccine advisory panel votes to end universal newborn hep B shot recommendation

A federal advisory panel with power over vaccine policy has voted to stop recommending a universal newborn shot to prevent the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver disease — a major shakeup to the ...
Politifact

4 fact-checks after CDC vaccine panel ends universal newborn hep B vaccine recommendations

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...
NPR

Kennedy's vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying, until age 4, the hepatitis B vaccine that ...