WASHINGTON (AP) — There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Major CDC updates on COVID-19 vaccines spark concerns over child and maternal health, insurance, and access changes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated advice on the COVID-19 vaccine days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said the agency would no longer ...

Controversial COVID-19 vaccine recommendations bypassed ... on the nation’s vaccine schedule. The CDC days later posted revised guidance that said healthy kids and pregnant women may get ...

Updated guidance on the CDC website appears to be walking back some of the changes for healthy children and pregnant women ...

Panagiotakopoulos co-led a part of the CDC's independent ... be eligible for COVID vaccines including a vote on whether to narrow the recommendations. "Governmental guidance about vaccines is ...

The agency also updated the adult immunization schedule to say there is “no guidance” on ... Kennedy said the COVID vaccine was “being removed from the CDC-recommended immunization schedule ...

Panagiotakopoulos and a CDC spokesperson ... for COVID-19 vaccines at a meeting later this month, before Kennedy usurped the process to impose his own changes to the guidance.

The CDC's vaccine recommendations also govern access to the shots through the federal Vaccines for Children program, which provides COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured children. Guidance from the ...

Federal public health guidance now excludes healthy children and expecting mothers from routine COVID-19 shots.