"Ending the practice of immunizing all newborns against hepatitis B, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recommended, would sharply increase the number of chronic infections and put more than half of Americans at risk of the disease by age 20, according to a new study published on Monday."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/health/hepatitis-b-vaccine-kennedy.html
Original research paywalled: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-26-02135
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