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And this is a good thing. As government does, they decide to spray and pray instead of look at risk and reward.

And the overall risk to babies from Hep B being transferred to them in the birthing process is almost non-existent.

In the U.S., an estimated 25,000 pregnant women per year — or 0.69% — have HBV. About 1,000 of those women pass the virus to their babies, according to HHS.

There are two physicians suing the CDC over the childhood vaccination schedule which they say is the most aggressive in the world. They lost their jobs (to be more specific, they had their medical licenses pulled) for not advocating for this schedule (toeing the line).

The physicians asked the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to declare CDC’s vaccine practices unconstitutional, loosen its vaccine requirements for children, and force the agency to do further research on the vaccines, per Bloomberg Law.

“[The vaccine framework] is only based on an evaluation of short-term individual vaccine risks,” the lawsuit reads. “The CDC has never studied the combined effects and the accumulating dangers of administering all of the vaccines on the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule.”

The doctors also highlighted that vaccine recommendations from the CDC often become state law, even if there’s little cumulative research to back up the recommendations. 

They want this schedule to be declared unconstitutional since CDC ‘recommendations’ are often just slotted into state laws as a matter of course and without the states looking at research.

Ideally, any shots should be up to the parents and doctors based on true risk and reward. The Hep B shot is the perfect example. There were 3,596,017 babies born in the US in 2023. According to the stats above, only 0.69% are possibly exposed to Hep B during childbirth. Only 1000 babies get the virus. That’s 0.028% of all the babies born. But yet all of them get the Hep B shot when all but those 1000 are at risk. And that shot is codified by the states into a requirement for school attendance.

As with all things government, there should be five year sunsets on law and regs and five year reviews of things like this. As a side benefit, this would keep government busy reviewing or having things automatically go off the books if it’s not a priority anymore.

And the histrionic doomsayers are losing their freaking minds over a review of this shot which is clearly not necessary for all children.