Most Democratic-led states say they will continue to universally recommend and administer the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite new guidance against it issued last week by a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance, which formed earlier this year in response to Kennedy’s concerning overhaul of vaccine policy, along with a other blue states, plan to to defy the latest recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.
Hepatitis B is a serious, incurable infection that can lead to liver damage and