Not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

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Why are hepatitis B shots given to newborns? Can birth doses wait? Here’s what to know
A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — also known as ACIP and the same panel that met this week — first began recommending universal birth doses of the hep B vaccine in 1991.

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Vaccine Makers Raise Concerns Over US Panel's Shift Away From Hepatitis B Shots for Newborns
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in all newborns
A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in one of the...

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Trump praises new childhood vaccine recommendations after panel votes to drop Hepatitis B shot
Kennedy's advisers scrap hepatitis B vaccine guidance for most children in major policy shift
Vaccine committee votes to scrap universal hepatitis B shots for newborns despite outcry from children’s health experts
The committee’s new recommendation keeps the hepatitis B vaccine at birth for infants whose mothers test positive for the virus.

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CDC panel votes to remove hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for all newborns
Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns
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