Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he had decided to remove the recommendation that healthy children and pregnant women receive the COVID-19 vaccine — a change that could affect insurance coverage for those who do want the shot.

But one major North Carolina insurer said that while it was still reviewing the changes, the decision by President Donald Trump’s administration would likely not affect its coverage.

And benefits on an insurance plan that covers hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians will also be unchanged, at least for now.

Here’s what we know so far.

What did RFK Jr. announce?

“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that as of today the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommen

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