West Coast health experts reject RFK Jr. panel, say hepatitis B vaccines at birth should continue

The West Coast Health Alliance grounds its decisions in facts, data and expert consensus,” Gov. Tina Kotek said.

RFK Jr. panel ends recommendation of hepatitis b vaccine for newborns

The influential advisory panel voted to no longer universally recommend the first dose of the hep B vaccine for newborns within 24 hours of birth.

RFK Jr.’s upside-down world of vaccines, and how the hepatitis B move played out | News analysis

Friday's session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

RFK Jr. Panel Ends Longtime Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shot at Birth

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth.

‘Shame on you’: GOP senator blasted for caving to Trump on key RFK Jr. vote

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to abolish the recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine the day that they are born.

MassDems call on Republican governor candidates to denounce RFK Jr. vax vote

Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party Steve Kerrigan is calling on the three Republican gubernatorial candidates to denounce a move by the HHS to end a longtime recommendation to provide

How RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy put a doctor-turned-senator in a political bind

Dr. Rich Besser, chief executive of the health nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said Kennedy’s new vaccine panel is spreading fear and misinformation about vaccines.
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