CHICAGO (WLS) -- A local doctor is voicing concerns Friday, after a federal vaccine advisory committee voted to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.

The decision is a departure from decades of U.S. vaccine policy. And while supporters applauded the decision, critics say the new policy could endanger children.

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Some newborns will now no longer be advised to get the vaccine after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

"These decisions (are) not based in science, and so they're gonna put babies at risk of getting a life-alte

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