Kids’ back-to-school vaccinations will continue to be free this fall, but some people could have to pay out of pocket for their COVID-19 vaccines.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former anti-vaccine activist, has rocked the normally staid world of vaccine policy since January, including by firing all 17 members of an advisory committee, no longer recommending COVID-19 shots for healthy children or pregnant women and declining to full-throatedly endorse the measles vaccine in the midst of the largest outbreak since the early 1990s .

The effect has been to confuse parents about whether vaccines are safe, said Northe Saunders, president of American Families for Vaccines. For now, the federal government hasn’t directly made it harder to get r

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