(CNN) — Health officials under US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are preparing analyses that may tie safety risks in pregnant women and children to the Covid-19 vaccine, while considering whether to narrow recommendations for elderly people to receive the shot, according to a person familiar with the matter.

US Food and Drug Administration officials are scouring datasets for case reports of congenital deformities in babies after their mothers received the Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy, said the person, who declined to be named because they’re not authorized to speak on the matter.

Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, a senior science adviser at the FDA, is also preparing a presentation for next week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and P

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