Hep B Vaccination Rates for Newborns Plummet — as Debate Heats Up

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

“There is a struggle brewing” over the science behind the hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine, said Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski after a report this week showed that Hep B vaccination rates plummeted 10 percentage points over two years.

Birth-dose Hep B vaccination rates rose from 67.5% in January 2017 to a peak of 83.5% in February 2023 — then fell sharply to 73.2% by August 2025, according to an analysis of electronic health records published in a Feb. 23 JAMA Research Letter.

The decline occurred before December 2025, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ended its universal recommendation that newborns receive the Hep B vaccine within 12-24 hours of birth…

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