Despite 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 knowYou 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.