Forbes December 8, 2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 last week to overturn a 30-year-old vaccine policy that has contributed to a substantial decline in cases of hepatitis B. Changes to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule may seem small, but in light of all that has happened since a new ACIP took over in June, top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials resigned in August, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., repeated claims of links between vaccines, autism and chronic disease, there appear to be efforts to gradually erode the public’s trust in childhood vaccines. The ACIP is now laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of a wide variety of shots administered to children,...
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