I want to go now to the story of the day.

This is the CDC's ASIP committee, the advisory committee on immunization practices.

They're meeting right now as we speak.

The entire day today is voted, is devoted, and we'll be voting on the hepatitis B recommendation,

the first shot given to babies' first day of life in this country.

And I want to make some points here that you made

right at the top. We have the previous chair, Martin Koldorf. He has now left. So the chairman of the

ASIP previously has now left for an HHS job. So he's becoming now the chief science officer

within the HHS planning and evaluation office. So that's kind of like the major think tank in HHS. So he's moved on to that senior position. So now we have Dr. Robert Malone as the vice chair. Dr. Kurt Milhoun, he came in on a Zoom call. So essentially Robert Malone, you'll see from the video, he's facilitating the entire meeting. And I have to say he seems like he's doing a great job. So I want to talk about

the hepatitis B vaccine was on the docket for last ASIP, the last ASIP meeting months ago.

And this is Robert Malone introing today's ASIP meeting just this morning to talk about that.

Take a listen. Okay. Many of you will recall that in September, ASIP deferred a vote

on proposed changes to the hepatitis B vaccination schedule. That decision was not about hesitation or

reluctance. It was about standards. Several data elements the committee requested were incomplete,

and the evidence did not yet meet the level of

clarity required for a confident, evidence-based recommendation.

When gaps in the evidence aburge, the responsible action is not to push forward.

It's to pause, review, ensure that we fully understand what the data can and cannot support and then formulate

independent advice to the CDC director. This is our charter.

So there you, and the reason we're playing these clips, and again to the audience, we're

watching this in real time, making these clips, shooting these out so we can report in near

real time on this meeting that just happened.

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