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Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies (nature.com)
24 points by Amorymeltzer 4 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments




Seems bad.

Why? It’s an STD, with 600 cases of mother to child transmission a year (so says the article.) Seems absurd to vaccinate all newborns for such a thing.

That’s 600 lives still. Seems absurd to not do something that has no negative but only positive outcomes.



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