The vote from all but one of the 12 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices comes as a de-escalation in the mounting tensions over vaccine policy under the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time skeptic of the status quo on childhood vaccines.
Hepatitis B vaccines have been one of the most critical issues for the broader anti-vaccine movement, in large part due to the fact that the first dose is given to infants on their first day of life if they are delivered in a hospital setting.
The committee was originally poised to change the recommendation and instead issue guidance that the first dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine should be delayed until a one-month infant
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