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‘Sad day for science’: Fmr. CDC Director on vote to end universal Hep B vaccine for newborns
MSNBC· 2025-12-05 19:36
Joining me now, Dr.. Dmitri Dascalakus, former director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Dr.. Nahed Bedellia, infectious diseases physician and director of Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. MS Now's Brandy Zadrasni and Ariel Rashef are here with me on set. So, I want to start Brandy by having you take us inside that meeting, what happened and what it means for the vaccination schedules. Yeah. So, I will start by saying these ASIP meetings are us ...
‘Civil war of public health’: Florida pediatrician raises alarm on elimination of mandated vaccines
MSNBC· 2025-09-04 21:00
After Florida's surgeon general said he was removing all state vaccine mandates, including those required for children to attend schools, more states are deciding to go it alone on vaccines. Officials in California, Oregon, and Washington are banding together to provide their own vaccine recommendations after Health Secretary RFK Jr. . replaced CDC's advisory panel.Eight states in the Northwest, Northeast, excuse me, are doing something similar. What's clear is that the US is headed toward two very differen ...