By Michael Erman, Mariam Sunny and Julie Steenhuysen

ATLANTA (Reuters) -A panel of U.S. vaccine advisers named by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday abandoned years of broad support for the COVID-19 shot and recommended that the vaccines be made available for all ages based on shared clinical decision-making with a physician.

Vaccines recommended by the committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), under shared clinical decision-making are typically covered by U.S. health insurance programs.

The vote was put forward as the panel reconvened for a second day of meetings that have highlighted deep divisions over the future of the U.S. immunization schedules under Kennedy, who has long promoted claims about vaccine harms that run contrary to scie

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