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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Experts fear for US childhood vaccine schedule after hepatitis B guideline change

a child getting a vaccine
A child receives a dose of Pfizer's Covid vaccine. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention.

Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime anti-vaccine activists, and they were all chosen by Donald Trump’s controversial health secretary Robert F. Kennedy after he fired the previous advisers in an unprecedented move to enact dramatic changes to US vaccination policy. Kennedy has been a frequent critic of vaccines.

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