After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and some reports that patients were turned away when they tried to get vaccinated.

U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce access to COVID-19 vaccines and restrict use to higher-risk populations. Here,

It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. One of the members of the committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals,

Kennedy last week announced he would "retire" the entire panel that guides U.S. vaccine policy. He also quietly removed Dr. Melinda Wharton — the veteran Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who coordinated the committee's meetings.

Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at  MIT’s Sloan School of Management, has published several papers regarding the mortality rates from COVID-19 vaccines.

While COVID-19 transmission remains low in the US, health experts are anxious about the potential for a big summer wave as two factors seem set for a collision course: a lull in infection activity that suggests protective responses have likely waned in the population, and a new SARS-CoV-2 variant with an infectious advantage over other variants.

Offit, who sits on the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), made the comments after criticizing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for instructing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and children.

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