RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake

Friday's session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a chaotic meeting Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired in June and replaced with a group that has largely expressed skepticism of vaccines — once again delayed an expected vote on hepatitis B vaccines.

WASHINGTON — Federal vaccine advisers, through a freewheeling, and at times combative two-day meeting, recommended a major change to childhood vaccinations that runs counter to the medical consensus — and began setting the stage for a larger rethink in the future.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was first introduced during the Reagan administration. Now, a CDC committee could reverse decades of public health policy. That's why Emily Delikat, the director of Tennessee Families for Vaccines,

A vote on whether to change the timing of the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns has become very contentious.

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis.

One of the most concerning declines involves the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella. Health experts say communities need at least 95% coverage to maintain herd immunity. But last school year, MMR rates among Pennsylvania kindergarteners dropped to 93.7%.