# Claims About Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination and Pharmaceutical Profit

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120169629347655840
- Source account: [@ValerieAnne1970](https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit) Most of the vaccines after 1989 were added not for public health reasons, but for profit, pharmaceutical profit reasons.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=9) So, why are we vaccinating one-day-old babies for hepatitis B when the only way they're gonna get hepatitis B is, uh, you know, hepatitis B is sexually transmitted.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=22) You get it from having sex with, you know, with, uh, from multiple partners, gay sex, or from sex workers, or intravenous drug use.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=34) Why would you give that to a baby? It, it, it clearly the only reason...

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=38) In fact, Merck, when it developed the drug, was told by FDA and CDC, "We want you to develop this for those vulnerable populations."

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=46) And the populations, when they didn't buy it, Merck went back to the agencies and saying, "You told us to develop this vaccine.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=54) Nobody's buying it." And CDC said, "Don't worry.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=58) We'll just recommend it for children. We'll force everybody to buy it."

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=62) So, that's how it got on the schedule. There's no medical justification.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=66) It's true that you can get hepatitis B from an infected mother, but every mother in every hospital in the United States is tested for hepatitis B, so you can identify the kids who would benefit.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SdhxQEcpjVty/en/claims-about-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccination-and-pharmaceutical-profit?t=79) You don't give it mass population-wide.