"To withhold a lifesaving vaccine from babies across the globe to promote your anti-vaccine agenda at home is deplorable,"
"How has it come to this? RFK Jr. must be stopped."
"They're doing that to generate evidence for a policy they have already implemented. It's clearly going to cause far more harm than any benefits."
"The typical way of going about it is to put out a request for proposal ... and fund the most rigorous study. Obviously, that was not done in this case."
A planned study to change Hepatitis B vaccine timing for infants in Guinea-Bissau sparked fierce objections from U.S. lawmakers and public health experts. Critics condemned links to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and accused officials of promoting an anti-vaccine agenda by withholding the birth dose. Analysts warned that reversing the birth dose could cause about 1,400 additional chronic pediatric infections and nearly 500 preventable deaths annually. House Science Committee staff reported the research team was not selected through a standard competitive process and that Kennedy directly sought out researchers. Experts emphasized that absence of a detailed protocol undermines assessment of the trial's safety and rigor.
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