{"id":12850877,"date":"2025-12-05T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12850877"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:06:10","slug":"the-vaccine-guardrails-are-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/12\/05\/the-vaccine-guardrails-are-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleHero_root__3w7kV ArticleHero_articleStandard__2tcdv\" data-event-module=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_defaultArticleLockup__vb8lz\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_title__PQ4pC\">\n<h2 class=\"ArticleTitle_root__VrZaG\" data-flatplan-title=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/2025\/12\/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-hepatitis\/685160\/?gift=rzDUIolzVNfKfBNSyuQYsUP46AvxijC5DUrKxKy0M2E&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_dek__EqdkK\" data-flatplan-description=\"true\">\n<p class=\"ArticleDek_root__P3leE\"><em>RFK Jr.\u2019s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_byline__iFT6A\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBylines_root__IBR5V\">By\u00a0<a class=\"ArticleBylines_link__kNP4C\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/tom-bartlett\/\" data-event-element=\"author\" data-flatplan-author-link=\"true\">Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<section class=\"ArticleBody_root__2gF81\" data-event-module=\"article body\" data-flatplan-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">In case there was any doubt before, it\u2019s now undeniable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s allies are in charge of the country\u2019s vaccine policy. The latest evidence: His handpicked vaccine advisory committee voted today to scrap the decades-old guidance that all babies receive the hepatitis-B vaccine shortly after birth. Now the panel recommends that only children born to mothers who test positive for the infection or have unknown status automatically receive a shot at birth. Everyone else has the option of a shot at birth or\u2014as the committee recommends\u2014waiting until at least two months after birth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/2025\/12\/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-hepatitis\/685160\/?gift=rzDUIolzVNfKfBNSyuQYsUP46AvxijC5DUrKxKy0M2E&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone RFK Jr.\u2019s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy. By\u00a0Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic\u00a0 \u00a0 In case there was any doubt before, it\u2019s now undeniable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s allies are in charge of the country\u2019s vaccine policy. The latest evidence: His handpicked vaccine advisory committee voted today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12828603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25541,26293,26294,21,1,12,25391,26281],"tags":[26297,26296,1335,371,858],"class_list":{"0":"post-12850877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biotech","8":"category-covid","9":"category-health","10":"category-available","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"category-phils-favorites","13":"category-members-corner","14":"category-sciences","15":"tag-biotech","16":"tag-covid","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12850884,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850877\/revisions\/12850884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12828603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}