This ought to have been a no-brainer. The illness ordinarily is contracted via sexual intercourse or by getting stuck with a used needle. One has to share body fluids; and it has to penetrate beneath the skin or have contact with a mucous membrane.
That is not ordinarily going to happen to babies or children. There is therefore no basis for vaccinating infants.
I received this vaccine approximately 30-35 years ago because of the risks associated with providing patient care.
While it is possible that hepatitis B can kill those who become infected, there are treatments now available that were not available back then.
Here is a brief discussion:
Yup, a no brainer. Make sense to me.
I hope the panel’s recommendation gets adopted, Fred.
“This ought to have been a no-brainer.” It isn’t stupidity or an accident. Those who people the medical industrial complex benefit.
I agree, J. Sobran. In retrospect, it is pretty astonishing how that complex gradually added these vaccines, one by one, to the kids’ vaccination schedule, in almost a surreptitious fashion, while few noticed.