A group of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to vote on whether the agency should scrap its long-standing recommendation that every baby get a hepatitis B vaccina

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

The vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Dec. 4 and 5. On the agenda: the hepatitis B vaccine, the overall childhood vaccine schedule and specific vaccine ingredients.

"We have real concerns and very little confidence that what they put out will be sound or based in science," Healey said.

Doctors say the vaccine has been key to eliminating infections among children.

Medical experts say the CDC “is promoting the outdated, disproven idea that vaccines cause autism" and advise parents to consult clinicians for fact-based guidance.

Americans’ confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has plummeted, according to a 2025 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases survey, and many young people are

Governor Maura Healey warned of misinformation about the childhood vaccine schedule, especially the infant hepatitis B vaccine, ahead of a meeting of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel.

A group of local health leaders from across the country said they're worried about how an upcoming meeting could affect immunization access and rates. The meeting could mean changes to more federal vaccine recommendations for serious viruses — like hepatitis B.

Abraham ordered the Louisiana health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations during an uptick in influenza cases last winter.