CDC ends routine Hep B shots for newborns—restoring informed consent and common sense.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday adopted its advisers’ recommendation allowing parents, in consultation with a healthcare provider, to decide whether infants born to hepatitis B-negative mothers should get the vaccine, including the birth dose, ending the long-standing policy that all U.S. newborns receive it.

For those infants not receiving the birth dose, the agency now recommends that the initial dose be administered no earlier than two months of age.

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