Vaccine advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted on Friday morning to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration ’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.

The panel of advisers, hand-picked by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr , decided to remove the well-established and far-reaching recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine.

The committee voted to recommend that parents of infants whose mothers test negative for hepatitis should decide when – or if – their child should receive the vaccine series, in consultation with a healthcare professional. Consulting with doctors was already a standard part of vaccination.

The move

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