Why is #ACIP focusing on one flawed study? “When you need a 20-year-old African study with a different vaccine to question current U.S. policy, it seems like you’re shopping for conclusions, not following the totality of the evidence," @jakescottmd.bsky.social told me.

STAT blood test being the solution is ridiculous. Have these people ever been in a hospital?? You've got 12 hours to know if Mom has Hep B and we're just supposed to rely on every hospital lab in the US having plenty of time to rush that one lab and oh yeah hopefully it's covered by insurance

ACIP is debating why we vaccinate all babies against hepatitis B at birth?
The CDC also presented this slide about a baby who wasn't vaccinated against hep B until age 2.5 months. The baby died of an overwhelming infection at 3 months. #ACIP

#ACIP is considering eliminating birth dose of hepatitis B. Some members ask why not just vaccinate people at high risk? CDC tried that strategy before and it failed. What is helping eliminate the disease is universal birth vaccination.

Giving hepatitis B vaccines to all babies at birth have led to a huge decrease in infections. #ACIP

@jakescottmd.bsky.social is not at the ACIP meeting. But he told me that the purpose of ACIP's discussion today -- rehashing a vaccine safety issue that was settled years ago -- seems to be to just create doubts about vaccine safety. Discussion isn't adding anything new here, he said.

"So the parent's choice is taken away" They are voting to remove a parent's choice to opt for a combined vaccine & only offering coverage for the MMR then a 2nd shot for varicella. So parents that want LESS injections per visit now have no choice but to have more. But personal choice, ammi right?🙄

This point was made incredibly clear: There are ways to address vaccine concerns so there still is coverage under VFC, but this one being voted on would mean VFC would not cover it even if a parent wanted it.