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December 12, 2025   
Health Law Weekly

Democratic-Led States Reject ACIP Reversal on Universal Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose

  • December 12, 2025

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice’s (ACIP’s) decision last week to roll back a decades-long recommendation to inoculate all newborns within 24 hours of birth with the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine has drawn push back from Democratic-led states who have pledged to continue to follow recommendations for a universal birth dose.

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