The altered Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, without new data to justify a reassessment, will no longer recommend universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The committee voted 8–3 to limit vaccination of newborns to those whose mothers test positive for the virus.
For mothers who test negative during pregnancy, ACIP now recommends waiting until their infants are two months of age to give them the first dose. There was no evidence provided at the meeting to support this timing change.
well the headline is a bit misleading, the recommendation was changed from ‘within 24hrs of birth’ to ‘within 2 months of birth’
still cruel and idiotic, it will lead to unnecessary suffering… but chronically ill people are easily enslaved by their capitalist overlords, if they want their medicine that is