Gov Josh Shapiro is again pushing back on a Trump administration reversal on vaccine guidance, this time involving the hepatitis B vaccine given at birth.

In a press release, the Shapiro administration said it was standing with medical experts “to ensure parents can protect children from lifelong liver disease by strongly encouraging the continued administration of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.”

On Friday, a federal advisory committee whose members were appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Hepatitis B is a bloodborne liver virus that can be transmitted in the womb.

Shapiro administration said the committee’s move created confusion for families and potentially devastating

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