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CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns

5 décembre 2025 à 17:29

Move from RFK Jr’s advisers mirrors Trump team’s regressive approach to longstanding vaccine guidance

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s vaccine advisers voted on Friday morning to limit hepatitis vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.

The panel of advisers to the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, decided to remove the well-established and far-reaching recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine.

‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official

The Guardian

Par :Melody Schreiber

4 décembre 2025 à 12:00

Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim

America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence for that allegation and scant details on the new approach.

The top-down changes, without input from outside advisers or publication of data, worry experts who fear vaccines such as the flu shot may quickly disappear and that public trust will take a major hit.