Retsef Levi, a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and professor of operations management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, signaled that the committee could revisit other vaccine recommendations in future meetings. (Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder)

ATLANTA — A key vaccine advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has indefinitely postponed a controversial change to guidelines on administering hepatitis B vaccines to newborn babies, and altered long-standing recommendations around COVID-19 vaccine access for children and adults, though a proposal to require prescriptions for all individuals seeking the shot narrowly failed.

The panel also voted to reverse a decision they made only Thursday that would have prevented updated guide

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