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Hepatitis B birth dose: how a talking point became federal policy, then got frozen in court
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On The Steve Deace Show ("Did We WIN in Minnesota?", Feb. 4, 2026, at 41:25), a guest, almost certainly Children's Health Defense CEO Mary Holland, said hepatitis B spreads by sex or IV drug use and there's no evidence babies will die without the birth dose.
Our verdict: false (truth score 0.12). Newborns are the route the claim leaves out, screening misses some mothers, and evidence of harm already existed when it was said.
The claim has three parts, and each fails differently. First, the…
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