One America News Network
OAN Staff Cory Hawkins
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now officially recommends “individual-based decision-making” for women deciding whether to give the hepatitis-B to their newborns within 24 hours of birth, as opposed to universally recommending that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
Individual-based decision-making means parents and health care providers should consider vaccine benefits, vaccine risks, and infection risks.
Parents should consult with their healthcare provider and decide if and when their child will begin the hepatitis B vaccine.
The proposed recommendations will not affect the supply of the hepatitis B vaccine, and the vaccine will still be offered if a mother is interested. The agency’s vaccine advisory committee voted for the recommendation earlier this month, uprooting more than three decades of agency recommendations.
“We are restoring the balance of informed consent to parents whose newborns face little risk of contracting hepatitis B,” said Jim O’Neil, acting director of the CDC.
Since 1991, the CDC had recommended that parents allow the vaccination following their child’s birth. The CDC now advises that if a baby does not receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, the first dose may be given at or after 2 months of age…
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