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RFK Jr.‘s vaccine committee says hepatitis B shot can wait.
On Friday, the handpicked CDC advisory group, containing several known vaccine critics, scrapped the three-decade-old recommendation to vaccinate all babies for hepatitis B at birth, instead delaying the recommended schedule to 2 months, if at all, for babies whose mothers test negative for the disease.
That’s a bad idea, according to medical groups and public health experts, and likely to lead to a rise in hepatitis B cases.
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