WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday adopted its vaccine advisory committee’s recommendation to end the decades-old policy that every newborn be offered a hepatitis B shot, despite an outcry from health experts that the decision ignored key evidence around the shots.
Instead, parents should discuss with their doctors whether to vaccinate infants at birth against hepatitis B, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The change applies to babies born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis B.
