CDC, hepatitis B and vaccine
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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
A CDC advisory committee has voted to alter the childhood vaccine schedule for hepatitis B. Doctors are raising concerns that the move upends decades of vaccination policy without evidence and will likely increase risks of chronic conditions for children.
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice.
Vaccine advisers to the CDC took action on vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B and questioned the overall childhood vaccination schedule and ingredients that boost some vaccines' potency.
Public health experts, doctors and scientists have decried the update as the kind of misinformation the CDC has fought for decades.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering a significant change to the childhood vaccine schedule.