Paul Attacked for Claiming 'No Medical Reason' for Hep B Vaccine for Newborns

He accused another Republican senator who disagrees as 'schilling for Big Pharma.' #43

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Rand Paul got into it on X with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy on Sunday about the necessity of giving newborns the hepatitis B vaccine.

Paul, an opthalmologist, said there was "no medical reason" to give newborns the vaccine if the mother was not infected.

Cassidy, also a physician, said that Paul's claim was "not true" and that children who are infected at birth have a "much higher chance of developing liver cancer and spreading hepatitis B to others."

This all comes in the wake of Health and Human Services Head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. possibly doing away with the practice.