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.
Brilliant! Feels like a real-life-docu about a madman killing all his underlings. Oh wait, it’s the US-of A, freedom country, home of the brave with all the guns. But no proper first-world vacination.
You guys really did a 180 there, didn’t see that coming.