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.

Conflicting recommendations from Trump administration health officials have left health experts, vaccine makers and insurers uncertain about what to advise.

The rewriting of government recommendations will make the effort to get vaccine doses into arms exponentially more difficult, experts say.

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on covid vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

The Trump administration has declared an end to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people, and health experts have a warning: This is a threat to Black communities. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Albertans who are not immunocompromised or dependent on social programs will have to pay out-of-pocket for the COVID-19 vaccine this fall. The Alberta government’s policy change was meant to cut down on waste and minimize costs, it said in a statement released late Friday afternoon.

Under the new guidance, children 6 months and older may receive COVID-19 vaccinations, if parents’ decisions are “informed by the clinical judgment of a health care provider.”

Experts urge South Africa to license updated vaccines as a new Covid variant spreads globally but hasn’t reached SA yet.