Washington ¨C An advisory panel appointed by President Donald Trump¡¯s vaccine-skeptic health secretary voted Friday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine.
The move to end the decades-old recommendation is the panel¡¯s latest contentious about-face on vaccine policy since its overhaul by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this year.
U.S. health authorities previously recommended all babies, not just those born to mothers believed to have hepatitis B, receive the first of three vaccine doses just after birth.
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