Ex-CDC Director Scorches RFK Jr.-Crafted Panel Over This 'Big Mistake'
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Tom Frieden called on health care professionals to ignore the new recommendation from the "unscientific group of people."
An ex-director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took on the agency’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday for voting to trash a long-standing recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. get vaccinated for hepatitis B.
“This is a big mistake that would endanger American children. Don’t mess with success,” said Tom Frieden, CDC head under President Barack Obama, in an appearance on CNN.
Frieden, now president and CEO of global health nonprofit Resolve to Save Lives, noted that the universal recommendation hasn’t resulted in “any significant harm to children” since the panel initially made it three decades ago.
On Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — composed of vaccine skeptics handpicked by conspiracy theorist and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — voted 8-3 to only recommend the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for infants born to mothers who test positive for the virus.
Hepatitis B is a liver infection that can lead to diseases such as liver cancer, cirrhosis and liver failure, especially for infants and children. Medical experts have since slammed the panel’s decision to roll back the recommendation.
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