he US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all newborn infants receive the Hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine, typically administered on the very first day of their lives. It does so despite the fact that the vast majority of children born in the US are not at signific...
making it the first shot most babies receive before leaving the hospital. That said, many adults born before the 1991 hepatitis B vaccine recommendation are living unprotected against the hepatitis B virus.[3]
Board-certified pediatrician Paul Thomas, who has a thriving practice in Portland, has just furnished a stunning response to officials’ demand that he “show the proof” that the slower, evidence-based vaccine schedule he recommends is safer than the CDC schedule. After opening up his p...
it can be included as the booster dose in the CDC schedule. If the DTaP or Tdap vaccine is given at 7 to 9 years of age, we should not include it as the booster dose, and Tdap should be readministered at eleven to twelve years of age. ...