{
  "id": 15662661,
  "title": "Proposed changes to hepatitis B vaccination schedule could significantly increase infections, model suggests",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/proposed-changes-to-hepatitis-b-vaccination-schedule-could",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-19T21:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-hepatitis-vaccination-significantly-infections.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A modeling study suggests that replacing universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth with delayed vaccination or a shared decision-making approach, as recommended by the U.S. federal government this year, could lead to substantially more chronic hepatitis B infections among U.S. children.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}