CBS News

RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here's what parents need to know.

Update: On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of ...

Vaccine panel, voting to change hepatitis B shot for newborns, shares misleading information

Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer issue a blanket recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B ...

CDC officially ends blanket recommendation of hepatitis B vaccine at birth

The CDC's move follows a vote from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel that entails a major ...
CNN

CDC advisers vote to recommend against combo vaccine for young kids, delay vote on newborn hepatitis B shot

A meeting of advisers chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine recommendations ended abruptly Thursday with ...
ABC7

What to know about hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to ...
WUNC

What does the CDC's advisors' vote to overturn hepatitis B vaccines for infants mean?

The Trump administration's campaign to overturn how children get vaccinated against infectious diseases took a major step forward yesterday. A powerful federal advisory committee recommended dropping ...

CDC vaccine advisers vote against universal hepatitis B shots for kids in move that critics say ‘makes America sicker’

In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift ...
NPR

CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants

In a historic vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisers recommended narrowing the agency's hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns. The result, if approved by the ...

Trinity, MyMichigan Health pledge to offer hepatitis B vaccine at birth

Trinity Health Michigan and MyMichigan Health say their hospitals will join five others in the state to offer the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
Reuters

US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in all newborns

NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a ...

Under Kennedy, U.S. Vaccine Policy Arrives at a ‘Defining Moment’

The committee, which has formed a working group to look at the entire childhood vaccine schedule, began that discussion on Friday with a presentation by Aaron Siri, a lawyer who is close to Mr.