The health community is in an uproar following a Friday vote by a federal vaccine committee ending a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.

The Centers for Disease Control committee was handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who generally opposes vaccines.

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