After RFK Jr.’s shenanigans, COVID shot access will be a lot like last year

The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally signed off on recommendations for this season’s COVID-19 vaccines—and, with that, access to the shots will, in the end, look a lot like the access people had last year.

Here’s what to know

You still have access and coverage: For this year, anyone age 6 months and older will still have access to the shots, and the shots should be fully covered under private insurance plans and federal programs—including Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Vaccines for Children Program, and insurance plans regulated by the Affordable Care Act.

In fact, for private insurance plans, AHIP—the trade organization that represents major insurers—had already stated that regardless of how this year’s messy federal recommendations ended up, private insurance plans would maintain their previous coverage with no cost sharing.

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