🥼 Your Covid Vaccine Questions Answered, How To Get The Shot: NPR

'Here Are Your COVID Vaccine Questions Answered,' NPR, Updated Sept. 9, 2025. Edit.
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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 & 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.

Doctors groups like the American Academy of Family Physicians have issued guidance recommending that all adults over 18 get the updated COVID shots this fall. The American Academy of Pediatrics says all young children ages 6-23 months should get vaccinated. Children between the ages of 2 and 18 with certain risk factors should also get the shot.

With states launching their own health care alliances to provide guidance about vaccines to doctors, pharmacists and patients, people are seeking vaccinations for themselves and their loved ones are sure to have plenty of questions. So we asked NPR listeners to let us know what they'd like to know about these upcoming changes. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert with the Univ. of Calif., San Francisco, joined Consider This to give you some answers. - How big of a risk is COVID-19 right now?... - Read More,
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5527042/your-covid-vaccine-questions-answered