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.

As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.

The FDA expanded its approval of Moderna's RSV vaccine on Thursday to include adults under age 60 at increased risk of the disease.

Health officials are tracking a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant. This comes as confusion grows over vaccine recommendations moving forward.

A medical officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was working on the committee that was weighing changes to the agency’s Covid-19 vaccine recommendations resigned on Friday, the same day officials the US Department of Health and Human Services announced they had removed the CDC recommendation for pregnant women and healthy children to get Covid-19 vaccines.

Kennedy’s decision to “retire” the previous 17-member panel was widely decried by doctors’ groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy’s desire to reassess — and possibly end — longstanding vaccination recommendations.

Dr. Megan Ranney, the dean of Yale's School of Public Health, says healthy people who are pregnant should still get routine COVID-19 vaccinations.

The move comes after a week of mixed messages on COVID vaccine recommendations. An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw the agency's recommendations for COVID-19 ...