For decades, the hepatitis B vaccine has been presented to parents as a routine and unquestioned part of newborn care in the United States. But critics of the vaccine schedule are increasingly challenging the origins of the shot, arguing that the vaccine was never originally intended for healthy infants and that its expansion into universal newborn use was driven more by pharmaceutical economics than public health necessity. The hepatitis B vacc…
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