Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel's recommendation to no longer administer doses of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Cassidy's plea came soon after the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of a new recommendation that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns be left to "individual-based decision-making" among parents and their health care providers, something which members of panel noted already occurs. The vote states "it is suggested" that a hepatitis B vaccine dose be administered "no earlier than 2 months of age." Cassidy spoke out forcefully against changes to hepatitis B guidance, the preventable liver disease being a close issue for the longtime physician.
The senator from Louisiana, chair of the Senate Health Committee, was the deciding vote in confirming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who fired and remade the ACIP four months after he was confirmed, appointing known vaccine critics and skeptics to the influential committee.
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