39 | Friday, September 19, 2025ATLANTA (AP) — Access to COVID-19 shots is the big question as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisers meet again Friday, after putting off a controversial vote on a different vaccine for newborns. People in many states already are reporting frustration as they they try to determine, or prove, if they qualify for updated COVID-19 vaccines — even as infections have climbed over the past month. On Thursday, the panel recommended a new restriction on another childhood vaccine. The panel takes up COVID-19 vaccinations as the virus remains a public health threat. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.