UPDATE 6-Kennedy advisers delay vote to drop hepatitis B vaccine recommendation, a major policy shift
Published on: Dec. 5, 2025, 2:51 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Many of the members of the committee, which was entirely reconstituted by Kennedy after he fired the previous 17 independent experts in June, are aligned with the health secretary's anti-vaccine views. On Thursday, the CDC posted the voting language for the advisory committee, proposing that only infants born to mothers who test positive for hepatitis B be recommended to get the vaccine.
