However, some proposals that would have more dramatically reshaped the vaccine schedule did not make it through. A vote to remove the recommendations that infants get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth failed to pass on Friday morning. This was the second meeting of the vaccine panel since Kennedy fired the existing roster, chosen during the Biden administration, and installed his own choices. Some on the panel have a history of criticizing vaccines, particularly the COVID-19 shots which have been an animating force for many of Kennedy’s supporters. “I don’t think that the public currently believes the narrative of safe and effective,” he told the panel.