RFK Jr.’s New CDC Panel to Review Childhood Vaccine Schedule

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine panel is adding new subcommittees to review the current childhood immunization schedule and examine shots that haven’t been studied in at least seven years, its chairman said Wednesday.

One of the new working groups will consider whether hepatitis B vaccines are given too early, said Martin Kulldorff, who took the helm of the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices after it was revamped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Infants currently get it within 24 hours of birth, according to the CDC.

While the ...