‘A ticking time bomb’: RFK Jr’s advisers vote to end routine hep B vaccines at birth

A key US vaccine advisory committee has voted to overturn the 30-year-old recommendation that all babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, with doctors describing the decision as a “ticking time bomb”.

It was voted through 8-3 by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were hand-picked by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr after he fired all 17 previous members in June.

“Do you want to expose your child, your baby, to an intervention that could have some potential harms when the risk is so low?” said committee member Professor Retsef Levi.

A mathematician with a research interest in operations management, Professor Levi once called for an end to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, claiming the evidence was “mounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm, including death, especially among young people”.

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