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Federal panel rolls back hepatitis B birth dose recommendation. Michigan officials say they’ll keep vaccinating.

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted last week to roll back the longstanding recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth — a decision Michigan health officials rejected. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, overhauled earlier this year by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted […]