Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scored another major victory in his quest to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policy on Friday, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel voted to rescind its recommendation that all newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth. While research shows the hepatitis B vaccine is safe and highly effective, the panel, which is filled with some of Kennedy’s closest anti-vaccine allies, did not provide evidence to support the thinking behind this consequential change.

The new recommendations come months after the CDC announced it would no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant people. The hepatitis B decision alarmed physicians and other public-health experts, who rushed to point

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