A key vaccine advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may revisit a controversial proposed change to guidelines on administering hepatitis B vaccines to newborn babies on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (Getty photo by Coral222)
No matter what a federal advisory committee recommends later this week, t he Rhode Island Department of Health on Monday reasserted the state’s commitment to preserving continued access to the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to discuss and potentially vote on changing the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants when it meets Thursday at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The panel spent hours during its last meeting in September discussing a proposal to delay the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine after several members raised issues about the available data…