Why vaccinate babies for hep B? Oh, yeah, they have baby immune systems that get sick from everything and tiny little delicate livers. They are in hospitals and places were there are lots of needles and sharps, oopsy blood, and lots of random people. There are also people who will make sexual contact with babies.

The study would have never passed an ethical review board. It would be like doing a study where you cut the seatbelts out of the back of a bunch of minivans to see exactly how much difference it makes compared to the expense. Because a couple of trailer trash Republicans can’t be bothered to buckle their kids and don’t want a ticket.

Nothing the U.S. loves more than fucking over black people

It “should be clear” that both birth vaccination schedules – with or without hepatitis B – are not “dangerous to anyone”, he wrote. There is a clear benefit to giving hepatitis B vaccines at birth, and not doing so can lead to lifelong danger, experts say.

Conducting a study like this “makes the case that there’s something that’s worthy of study, for which they have no evidence”, Offit said.

“We have millions and millions, arguably hundreds of millions, of children in this world who have gotten that vaccine as a birth dose or haven’t. If there was any evidence that this was problematic, you would know this by now,” Offit added. “We eliminated hepatitis B in the United States in children virtually within years of starting that program, so the benefits are clear.”

The study was to be funded with $1.6m from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with another $1.6m from private partners like the Bill Ackman-backed Pershing Square Foundation and the Bluebell Foundation.

“The solution is clear here: take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” said Paul Offit, a vaccines expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who sharply criticized the proposed study as unethical.

They were going to infect the infants with a lifelong condition