{"id":192601,"date":"2025-12-06T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/key-us-panel-to-vote-on-changing-infant-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:17:12","slug":"key-us-panel-to-vote-on-changing-infant-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/key-us-panel-to-vote-on-changing-infant-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Key US panel to vote on changing infant hepatitis B vaccine recommendation – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACIP vote follows two postponements and contentious meeting and comes as RFK Jr pushes for vaccine delay
After a delay and an unusually contentious meeting, a federal vaccine advisory panel was expected to vote on Friday whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B.
The first day of the meeting of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) on Thursday was marked by heated debate over restricting access to the hepatitis B vaccine for infants and a decision to defer the vote by a day to give members more time to review the wording. The panel, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines, had twice before postponed the vote.
The shot is currently recommended for all infants within 24 hours of birth to prevent hepatitis B infection, which can cause serious liver damage. It has been given to 1.4 billion people over more than three decades.
The meeting in Atlanta offered no new evidence of the harms allegedly caused by the vaccine. The advisory panel, hand-picked by Donald Trump\u2019s controversial health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, includes longtime anti-vaccine advocates.
Kennedy<\/a>, himself a prominent anti-vaccine activist, has long pushed for delaying the shot. Experts say any change to the current hepatitis B vaccination recommended schedule could have significant and far-reaching consequences for childhood health in the US.
In one pointed exchange on Thursday, Joseph Hibbeln, an ACIP member and psychiatrist and neuroscientist, asked: \u201cIs there any specific evidence of harm of giving this vaccination before 30 days? Or is this speculation?\u201d
\u201cThere is limited evidence about the long-term risk,\u201d said Mark Blaxill, an author who has argued that vaccines cause autism and other conditions, and who was recently named senior adviser at the CDC.
\u201cSo this was speculation and limited evidence,\u201d Hibbeln replied. \u201cOK, got it.\u201d
The advisory panel can only make recommendations to the head of the CDC, acting director Jim O\u2019Neill. The previous director, Susan Monarez, was ousted by the Trump administration<\/a> in August after the White House claimed she was \u201cnot aligned\u201d with the president\u2019s agenda.
Earlier this year, Kennedy dismissed all 17 members<\/a> of the advisory committee. He has replaced them<\/a> with his own appointees, including several vaccine skeptics who align with Kennedy\u2019s desire to overhaul \u2013 and possibly, in some cases, scrap \u2013 longstanding vaccination recommendations.
The panel\u2019s membership changed again this week, when the health department announced that the committee\u2019s most recent chair, Dr Martin Kulldorff, would depart for an official role within the agency. He was replaced by Dr Kirk Milhoan, a cardiologist who has been critical of the Covid vaccine.
Melody Schreiber contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n

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