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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

ACIP has voted 8-3 to change the infant vaccination schedule for hepatitis B. Meissner, Hibbeln, Pollack voted no. Here's the language.

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

EtR and GRADE are not magic words just because you don't know what they mean or how to implement them, Restef. Stop cherry picking data. #ACIP

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If #ACIP recommends against universal hep B vaccination, we will not observe a difference for another 50 years -- when people born after 2025 start developing liver disease in 2075 and beyond.

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Huge disconnect noticed this morning with surveillance data and now. Yes, 60-year old adults are getting diagnosed with chronic hep B because their livers are starting to fail. What is missing is that most of them acquired the infection in early childhood, which we can prevent w universal vax! #ACIP

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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

ACIP has just voted 6-3 to put off all of the hepatitis B birth dose vaccine dose votes until tomorrow, Friday. #CDC #IDsky #vaccines #hepB #pediatrics #familymedicine #obgyn

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The CDC provided some real-world data on community/household transmission of Hep B at the last ACIP meeting. It happens.

- Prior to HepB BD, some U.S.-born children born to immigrant mothers without HBV infection had hepatitis
B prevalences of 7–11%2,3 attributable to community or household exposures.

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The most vulnerable point in the life of a liver isn't when a person is 40, 50, 60, or older. It is when they enter this world. A few facts about HBV and the birth dose vaccine (in case you hear otherwise this week): #HBV #hepatitis #vaccines #ACIP #KeeptheBirthDose

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Another thought about the #ACIP voting questions. Can they vote on screening? I was under the assumption that they can only vote on vaccine recommendations given the current healthcare setting and landscape they would be provided.

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Why are we discussing votes already? Why are they only be read aloud and no slides? So they can't be screenshotted? What a mess. #ACIP

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Risky behavior for acquisition of hep B in children include: putting things in their mouths, biting, scratching, touching their eyes, etc. "Waiting for vaccination until risky behavior" = shortly after birth, so no change? #ACIP #hepatitisB #HepBVaccine #vaccines

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

So far, the Temu ACIP meeting is basically a bounce house of misinformation.

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Heather D. Marshall @heatherdmarshall.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Does anyone know of a good US measles tracker? I’m trying to avoid checking each state DOH (or even more local) and the CDC isn’t breaking down by state (just ranges) nor by the 3 defined outbreaks. Please help! #measles #IDsky #Medsky

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