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Nola Jean Ernest is a pediatrician working in the Wiregrass region of Alabama.
Which is the southeast corner of Alabama where I like to say we don't have interstates and we don't have children's hospitals.
So the pediatricians in this area really are the frontline experts in kids' health for all of the children.
In her work, Dr.
Ernest encounters a lot of skepticism around childhood vaccines,
and she sees it as her job to convince her patients that vaccines are safe and effective.
But recently, even in the last week,
she has noticed a change in how some parents are thinking about the vaccine for hepatitis B,
which for decades has been recommended for all newborns in the US.
In the past, declining the hepatitis dose vaccine at birth was Pretty rare,
we would come up against it one or two times a year.