Dr. Kirk Milhoan

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175 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 11 Jan

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And I handed them five papers.
And so that went on.
But when I was made the chairman, that brought it up to a new level.
And the ATT&CK papers came out in strength.
And it was interesting because I was in Hong Kong when I was the first meeting I was sort of supposed to be the chair of at a World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
And every day we had pro and con debates.
And it wasn't like there was any problem with that.
But after the ACIP meeting,
After looking at all the data, especially for the hepatitis B negative mother, that we know their hepatitis B negative, really we felt no benefit for the birth dose.
And there was only risk of neonatal fever and a whole bunch of other concerns that we saw.
We saw two different studies that had an uptick in SIDS following that.
And so what we what we advised was to move that out of the neonatal period, which is a very critical period of development in the infant and let people decide because it's really a sexually and blood transmitted disease.
So a lot of the other countries have been doing this idea of you only you treat for high risk, not for low risk.
And there are a lot of data out there that are encouraging and showing that is completely with very little risk at all of someone getting hepatitis B. So when we did that, there was a huge outcry that we were going to send all these kids to death.
But everything we've done, we've allowed everything to get the same vaccines.
Any of our changes of recommendations have still made it available for a doctor and patient to get whatever they would like.
But we don't feel like we can recommend things that we don't have the data to support and be able to explain to patients clearly what is the risk and what are the benefits.
Most of what is the risk of getting the disease?
What is the risk of getting a vaccine?
vaccine, what is the benefit of getting the vaccine?
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