Kennedy's Vaccine Plan Could Cause Surge in Hepatitis B, Study Finds

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA new study finds that ending routine hepatitis B vaccination at birth, as the health secretary recommended, would raise chronic infections by as much as eighty-three percent.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola Cruz is live tonight.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI'm outside a hospital maternity entrance, and behind me families are leaving with car seats.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentResearchers from Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical School modeled a single year of births, three point six million infants, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentUnder the policy's shared decision-making approach, the model projects four hundred sixty-seven extra chronic infections in that group.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentDeferring the first dose to two months raises them by nineteen percent.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShared with whom, exactly?

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentWith a patient who is minutes old, Hank.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI've sat in tense negotiations in four countries, and this is the first where one side can't speak and the other holds the pen.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the baby is in the meeting. Minutes old, and already outvoted by the paperwork.