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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky clashed yesterday with Doctor Susan Maneras, the CDC chief fired after 29 days on the job.

Maneras testified to the Senate Health Committee.

She said preventable diseases like whooping cough and polio could make a comeback because of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr's anti-vaccine push.

Manera said she was fired in part because she refused to fire some CDC officials without cause.

Here's Senator Paul questioning Doctor Maneras about giving a hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn when the mother doesn't have hepatitis.

This is the debate over changing the childhood schedule.

The appetite is B vaccine on the schedule is given to newborns.

What is the medical scientific reason and prove for giving a newborn a hepatitis B vaccine?

If the mom is at B negative?

I want to go back to the assertion is is what is the medical reason for giving a hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn?

So you everybody's like blithely going along, we can't change the child and you're somehow terrible if you want to change the childhood.

We should be discussing what is the childhood vaccine schedule.

And you should be.

The burden should be on you.

You want to make all the kids take this.

The burden is upon you and the people.

You wouldn't fa to prove to us that we need to give our six month old Covid vaccine, and that we need to give our one day old a hepatitis B vaccine.

That's what the debate ought to be about now, whether all vaccines are good or whether we live in Alice in Wonderland.

I actually agree with you and I was open to the science.

I just would not pre-commit to approving all the ACIp recommendations without the science.

Untrue.