There’s quite a bit of confusion surrounding who is eligible for updated COVID-19 vaccines.
It follows Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shifting comments on vaccines and the announcement that people who are under 65 and considered healthy need a prescription to receive the shot. There had also been upheaval in the leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — pushing some states to take matters into their own hands.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the vaccines for people 65 and older, and for people who have an existing underlying health condition. In the past, anyone over six months old could get a COVID vaccine…