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Friday, December 05, 2025
BREAKING: CDC advisory panel votes to roll back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel voted to rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.

Members of the vaccine panel were handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and their changes upend decades of CDC guidance and goes against widespread public health consensus.

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