5 Michigan health systems defy federal vaccine panel's advice [View all]
Source: Detroit Free Press
Some of Michigan's largest health systems say they will not follow the recommendations of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which voted in early December to change longstanding immunization guidelines and delay a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for infants.
Instead, five health systems — Corewell Health, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care, Munson Healthcare and the University of Michigan Health — told the Detroit Free Press they will continue to provide universal hepatitis B vaccines within the first 24 hours after a child's birth.
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The state health department issued a statement "strongly" disagreeing with the committee's decision, and urged Michigan health care providers to continue offering the birth dose of the vaccine, which is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists.
However, President Donald Trump took to social media hours after the CDC committee made its controversial decision, and defended the change in hepatitis B vaccine recommendations. He also challenged the agency's recommended U.S. childhood vaccine schedule altogether.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2025/12/14/michigan-hospitals-hepatitis-b-vaccine-at-birth-childhood-immunization-schedule-cdc-acip/87700948007/
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