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'Here Are Your COVID Vaccine Questions Answered,' NPR, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. UPDATED 🥼

One thing certain about the COVID vaccine right now is that everything about it is changing. New rules are causing confusion over who can and who can't get the updated COVID-19 shot.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. and other top Trump administration health officials claim that at this point in the pandemic, existing immunity removes the need for continued boosters.

So the new updated COVID vaccine shots have only been approved for people who are at increased risk of complications from the virus. For now, that at-risk group has been defined as people who are 65 or older, or any young people who have other health issues that make COVID especially risky.

An advisory group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to meet later this month and will issue formal recommendations for how they can be prescribed and who can get them – and this will affect whether insurance covers them too. Until then, rules and guidance vary state by state...

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