CDC Vaccine Committee Ends Recommendation That All Newborns Receive Hepatitis B Shots

In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to delay the shots for babies of mothers who test negative for the virus, reversing longstanding guidance.Dr. Robert Malone, the panel’s vice chair, addressing the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to discuss childhood vaccine schedule, at the C.D.C. in Atlanta on Friday.