WASHINGTON, United States: Experts appointed by the Trump administration´s vaccine-skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr are expected to review newborn hepatitis B vaccines on Thursday, considering whether to delay the shots despite opposition from many doctors.
The newly anointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) members are slated to meet for two days in Atlanta, Georgia, to follow-up on a September meeting that resulted in new recommendations for Covid-19 and measles vaccinations.
Under Kennedy, ACIP has initiated a broad review of the safety of several vaccines, some of which have been in use for decades.
