{"id":10941,"date":"2025-12-03T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10941"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:01:16","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-hepatitis-b-shot-for-infants-ahead-of-cdc-vaccine-panel-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/what-to-know-about-the-hepatitis-b-shot-for-infants-ahead-of-cdc-vaccine-panel-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about the hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/hepatitis-shot-infants-ahead-cdc-vaccine-panel-meeting\/story?id=128041421\">ABC News<\/a> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to newborns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting Thursday and Friday. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/downloads\/agendas\/draft-posted-2025-12-01-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"draft agenda, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">draft agenda<\/a>&nbsp;posted online on Monday provides little detail on what materials will be presented or which speakers will give presentations, but does mention a discussion about the hepatitis B vaccine on the first day as well as &#8220;votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it&#8217;s not clear what will be voted on, past comments from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and ACIP members indicate the universal hepatitis B vaccine dose given just after birth will be at issue.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to newborns. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting Thursday and Friday. A&nbsp;draft agenda&nbsp;posted online on Monday provides little detail on what materials will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}