{"id":49957,"date":"2025-11-16T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49957"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:12:50","slug":"louisiana-republican-says-hes-very-concerned-about-possible-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49957","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Republican says he\u2019s \u2018very concerned\u2019 about possible hepatitis B vaccine schedule change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sen. Bill Cassidy\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-La.) on Sunday said he is \u201cvery concerned\u201d about the possibility of changing the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s panel of federal vaccine advisers is set to discuss and potentially vote<\/u><\/a> on changing that vaccine schedule when they next meet on Dec. 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Cassidy said he \u201cwas concerned\u201d and that the vaccine and its ingredients, such as aluminum, which the panel is set to discuss, \u201chave been shown to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is policy by people who don\u2019t understand the epidemiology of hepatitis B, or who have grown comfortable with the fact that we\u2019ve been so successful with our recommendation that now the incidence of hepatitis B is so low, they feel like we can rest on our laurels,\u201d he told Margaret Brennan\u2002<\/u><\/a>on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Federal Register notice, the agenda for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will include \u201cdiscussions on vaccine safety, the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, and hepatitis B vaccines.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removing aluminum, or even issuing a warning about its use, would affect some<\/u><\/a> of the most important childhood shots, including those for DTaP, hepatitis A and B, HPV, pneumococcal and meningitis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from hepatitis B, it\u2019s not clear what other changes the panel could discuss. However, the Trump administration has been advocating for breaking up the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot given to children into three shots, arguing without evidence that it\u2019s more beneficial and safer to space them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, has previously spoken out against a recommendation to no longer vaccinate<\/u><\/a> newborns against hepatitis B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also noted how newborn hepatitis B infections dropped by nearly 70 percent after the vaccine was approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a doctor. I have seen people die from vaccine-preventable disease,\u201d Cassidy told Brennan on Sunday. \u201cI want people to be healthy. I want to make America healthy, and you don\u2019t start by stopping recommendations that have made us substantially healthier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sen. Bill Cassidy\u2002(R-La.) on Sunday said he is \u201cvery concerned\u201d about the possibility of changing the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants in the United States. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s panel of federal vaccine advisers is set to discuss and potentially vote on changing that vaccine schedule when they next meet on Dec. 4.  On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[35296,2400,21064],"class_list":["post-49957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-hepatitis-b","tag-louisiana","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49961,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions\/49961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}