NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

What You Need To Know • A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born • For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth • The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses • But Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted Friday to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive; for other babies, it will be up to the parents and their doctors to de

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