By Michael Erman

NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee will vote later this week on whether to delay hepatitis B shots for most American children but has not settled on exactly how long to recommend pushing them back, the new chair of the committee said in an interview.

Delaying the decades-old practice of administering the hepatitis B vaccine to newborns is an idea that has been pushed by long-time anti-vaccine activist Kennedy as part of his campaign to revamp U.S. vaccination policy.

“We try to avoid giving things to the most vulnerable,” Kirk Milhoan said late on Monday. “We want to test these things incredibly thoroughly before we give it to them, especially in a neonatal period or in a pregnant mother. So these

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