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Virginia Pediatric Chairs Support Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination for All Newborns

Dr. Eric Lowe, chair of the EVMS/ODU Department of Pediatrics and CHKD’s Chief Clinical Academic Officer, and his fellow pediatric department chairs at UVA and VCU have written a letter expressing their concern about ending universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The physician leaders are unanimous in their support of universal hepatitis B vaccination of all newborns at birth as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and decades of scientific evidence.