https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedy-advisers-vote-dropping-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation-most-us-2025-12-05/Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains.The committee recommended the birth dose only for infants of mothers who test positive for the virus or whose status is unknown, replacing the 1991 universal recommendation aimed at protecting all children from hepatitis B infections.For the vast majority of children whose mothers test negative for the virus, it said parents should consult with their healthcare providers over if and when to begin the three-shot vaccine series and recommended the first dose no sooner than at two months of age.Public health experts and medical groups including the American Medical Association decried the move, saying the decision creates obstacles to the vaccine and is in conflict with decades of evidence on its safety and efficacy.Hepatitis B infections, which can lead to serious liver disease, have fallen nearly 90% in the U.S. from 9.6 per 100,000 before vaccination became widespread to about one per 100,000 in 2018.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - now run by a Kennedy-appointed acting head, Jim O'Neill, who is not a scientist - will use the committee's recommendations to set U.S. public health guidance.The recommendations affect U.S. health insurance coverage and play a key role in assisting physicians who are choosing appropriate vaccines for patients. The trade group for insurers said they would continue covering the shot.The American Academy of Pediatrics said it continued to support the birth dose of the vaccine.
Fucking why!?
>>1462847Republicans hate science
>>1462847The retarded nepobaby is also a panic mongering con artist and saboteur trying to push people into spending their money on the alternative healthcare industry (or as I like to call it, Not so big Snake Oil) because he has financial investments in it. Pretty standard fare for the 2nd Trump administration, which is, at best, a Neo Gilded Age, where political corruption has reached heights not seen in over a century, and at worst, an active dismantling and eventual destruction of the U.S.A.
>>1462847>Fucking why!?Honest to god, to create an incentive to keep foreigners with Hepatitis out. They literally directly said as much.
>>1462937...So their strategy to curb immigration is to make the country actively shittier?
>>1462842He gets everything he knows about healthcare from youtube grifters and twitter con artists.
>>1462979You can get the hep b vax anytime before you get infected. It is unnecessary for babies.
>>1462889I haven't figured out what the Kennedy's a snake oil salesman or a true believer/wacko. Probably both
>>1462851Step 1: Replace Science with Christianity.Step 2: ??????????????Step 3: Go to hELL evil Atheists!!!
>>1462993Yeah man, just play chicken with fucking hepatitis b. What could go wrong?
>>1462993>It is unnecessary for babies.Setting aside babies can get it from their mothers.By the way, what you meant to say was "You can get hep b anytime before you get the vax" and therefore it is best to get the vax as early as possible.
>>1462979Yes.
>>1462998According to that blonde reporter he fucked, he mostly doesn't believe it and is just doing it for grifting reasons.
>>1463157>Setting aside babies can get it from their mothers....so give it to babies who have infected parents, and not everybody.
>>1463192Great plan! Why didn't the medical community think of that? Just give vaccines to people that are going to be exposed to sick people. It's genius!Wait>Many people have no symptoms after exposure. For others, symptoms may appear 30 to 180 days after exposureGosh darn it, it seems like you're a complete fucking idiot.
>>1463160Somehow that's even worse than him being insane.
>>1463195Retards are going to learn vaccination schedules and recommendations were written in blood. Such a fucking shame hundreds to thousands are going to die because a brain-damaged idiot was put in charge of public health and it will take years to undo the damage he's done.
>>1463216Can you tell me how many infants in the US died from hep b in the last 50 years? Or how about just last year?
