"What we are doing here is trying to undo some really, really bad decision processes we had in the past."
"We have to look at what is happening now that this programme has been in place for decades."
"Sometimes autoimmune conditions take decades to develop."
"And over 35 years, with a huge amount of experience and millions of doses given, we have not detected those events."
ACIP members are scheduled to vote on whether to roll back or delay the decades-old recommendation to give all newborns a hepatitis B vaccine shortly after birth. The birth-dose policy, in place since 1991, helped reduce infections in people younger than 19 by 99% and cut mother-to-child transmission. Some ACIP members raised safety concerns and suggested revisiting decisions made years ago, including questions about long-term autoimmune risks. Other experts noted that U.S. vaccine-safety monitoring over 35 years and millions of doses has not detected such rare safety events. Chronic hepatitis B infection can cause liver cancer and death.
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