The panel's members were handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, after he fired all 17 members earlier this year.

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Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection that can be transmitted during childbirth and have long-lasting effects. The vaccine has been shown to be effective in preventing the disease. The CDC's guidance has been in place since 1991, and hepatitis B cases in children have dropped.

If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Today’s renaming of military bases for Confederates, re-installing of Confederate statue, denigration of Black holidays, refusal to acknowledge Black contributions while decimating civil rights by an openly white nationalist administration is all to signal the “restoration” of the racial order.