AXIOS August 28, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new COVID vaccine policy continues a steady drip of moves that are incrementally raising barriers to accessing shots.
- It rewrites pandemic-era rules by narrowing the groups who can get the shots without a prescription — and will make everyone else jump through more hoops to stay COVID-free.
Why it matters: While the new policy was in line with drug companies’ expectations, there could be more obstacles ahead when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kennedy’s handpicked vaccine advisory board weigh in on the suitability of the shots in the coming weeks.
Driving the news: Kennedy said on X that the Food and Drug Administration rescinded emergency use authorizations for Pfizer...
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