Just 13 percent of children have gotten the latest Covid shot, according to the most recent CDC data. And after Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, turned the pandemic response into an increasingly partisan issue, states have veered away from efforts to require it.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services had a busy Tuesday stealing some headlines. According to a new report, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to remove the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's childhood immunization schedule.

Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health officials are considering narrowing the recommended age range for universal vaccination from everyone over 6 months to those 65 and older and people with health complications for the next respiratory virus season.