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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is just getting started

After two days of contentious discussion , federal vaccine advisers voted Friday in favor of a major change to childhood vaccinations — no longer recommending that every baby receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. That runs counter to decades of medical consensus, and signals the committee will scrutinize other childhood vaccines in the future.

The new recommendation, decided by a panel of people handpicked by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is that parents should discuss with their doctors whether to give the hepatitis B vacc

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