Infectious disease physicians expressed alarm over how the Trump administration bypassed open and established processes for changing vaccine recommendations, and voiced particular concern over restrictions to COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy.

During a briefing hosted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) on Friday, experts urged clinicians seeking information on COVID vaccination to look to specialty societies for evidence-based guidance in lieu of government websites.

In the last few weeks, the FDA has started to limit COVID vaccine approvals , limiting their use in healthy people under 65 years of age, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to unilaterally take down CDC guidance that recommended their use in pregnant women and healthy children.

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