Two weeks after a federal committee of vaccine advisers approved new recommendations for who should get Covid-19 shots, neither Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor his deputy have signed off, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income children.
That’s according to two immunization program experts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal from the administration. The experts said that without approval from the highest health officials, updated Covid shots meant for the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which provides free or low-cost vaccines to low-income children, haven’t yet been shipped.
