RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Likely to Target Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns

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.