Michigan moves away from Kennedy-picked council for vaccine guidance
The Detroit News••health
Key Points:
- Michigan's chief medical executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, recommended that health care providers follow vaccine schedules from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), moving away from recent federal guidance.
- The shift comes after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all members of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which subsequently voted to end the hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
- Michigan's health department emphasized the importance of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, citing decades of safety data and urging parents to follow evidence-based medical guidance.
- More than a dozen states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, and California, now rely on immunization schedules
