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CDC and industry experts excluded from ACIP hepatitis B meeting

The federal government’s vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to review the hepatitis B vaccine this week. But experts on the shot — both in and outside of the government — told STAT’s Daniel Payne and Chelsea Cirruzzo they’ve been shut out of the process. Like many of the proceedings around the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this year, this is far from normal.

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