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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
Public health experts warn delaying newborn hepatitis B shots could lead to preventable infections as a CDC advisory panel reconsiders long-standing vaccine guidelines.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met on Dec. 4 and 5, as Democratic senators led by Colorado’s John Hickenlooper introduced a bill to “protect scientific