Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.
A dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for a 1-month-old patient in Pittsburgh. Newborn infections of hepatitis B were reduced by 68 percent in the first 10 years of routine immunization at birth.
The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.
The agency plans to highlight possible links between the shots and accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week.
Agency officials are reviewing reports of injuries or deaths from Covid shots, and of the effects on pregnant women, under pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies.
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