Recent changes in government health agency guidelines regarding the COVID-19 vaccine have sparked concerns among healthcare providers.

At the moment, a lot of people in the US opt to get a covid vaccination around the time they get their annual flu jab. Each year, a flu vaccine is developed to protect against what scientists predict will be the dominant strain of virus circulating come flu season, which tends to run from October through March.

Kennedy's move appears to shortcut the CDC's outside vaccine advisers, dropping COVID vaccines from the list recommended for children and pregnant women.

Despite the fact that vaccines against COVID have already undergone strict safety reviews and that people continue to die from the disease, Trump’s FDA is moving to reduce access to annual COVID boost

Secretary Kennedy's appointment led to fears that vaccine availability would be curtailed. Those fears are now being realized.

Existing evidence on the safety and efficacy of getting a COVID vaccine in pregnancy all points the same way: the shot is important for maternal and fetal health.

Insurance coverage typically follows federal recommendations, so anyone who is healthy and under 65 is likely to have to pay out of pocket to get the shot ‒ which runs about $200 ‒ if they can get it. It's not clear what insurance companies will do about the new recommendations.

Endocrine effects that may result from vaccination are deceptively subtle at their onset. Hence, robust and sensitive pharmacovigilance is needed to discover them, writes Jane Orient, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.