Name: Nicole Saphier: the universal birth dose has been the most effective policy here in the United States for reducing infection.
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Nicole Saphier

56:09 - 56:17

“the universal birth dose has been the most effective policy here in the United States for reducing infection.”

Speaker: Nicole Saphier
Timestamp: 56:09 – 56:17
Transcript: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Community: Alaska News
Captured at: September 16, 2026

From the transcript

And being someone in academic medicine, I believe in evidence-based medicine, and that's all I have right now is that the universal birth dose has been the most effective policy here in the United States for reducing infection. Dr. Senator Baldwin.

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