The altered Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, without new data to justify a reassessment, will no longer recommend universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The committee voted 8–3 to limit vaccination of newborns to those whose mothers test positive for the virus.
For mothers who test negative during pregnancy, ACIP now recommends waiting until their infants are two months of age to give them the first dose. There was no evidence provided at the meeting to support this timing change.
As bad as this is, it’s a change of recommendation, not a ban. Your doctor didn’t suddenly become retarded because of this, they still know what’s right.
I went for a covid vax last week, and my provider required me to read this long statement about how covid vaccination is only recommended for people over 65 or people with specific health conditions. They made me ‘attest’ to understanding that the vaccine isnot* recommended for me, but that I was voluntarily requesting it.
Now, I know that’s some lawyer bullshit. The practitioner agreed it was new corporate policy, but they were careful not to say anything that would have indicated a personal or professional belief other than the corporate legalese. And I’m pretty sure that some people, reading that a treatment is not recommended, will interpret that as actively discouraging rather than the absence of encouragement.
It’s some “giving insurance an excuse not to cover it” bullshit. Elective = self-pay.
I can’t say for other insurers, but mine still gives covid shots to non-recommended groups with no out-of-pocket cost. Their epidemiologists and actuaries still know that preventative care is way more profitable than emergency care, even if the lawyers kowtow to policy. I imagine that birth-hepatitis vax will be similar, but everything about births seems to be a cash grab for them.