New York: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to meet on December 4 and 5, and could vote on policy concerning shots for hepatitis B, a Federal Register notice from the agency showed on Wednesday.

The members of the panel, selected by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , abandoned a vote at their most recent meeting in September that would have delayed the first hepatitis B vaccine dose for most newborns under federal recommendations.

Kennedy, an appointee of President Donald Trump, has been moving rapidly to rewrite U.S. vaccination policy, including dropping recommendations for COVID shots for pregnant women and children, directing states on limits to their vaccine mandates and cutting funding for mRN

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