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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Melody Schreiber

CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns

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The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meets in Atlanta on Friday to consider changes in hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants. Photograph: Ben Gray/AP

Vaccine advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted on Friday morning to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.

The panel of advisers, hand-picked by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, decided to remove the well-established and far-reaching recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine.

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