It is a time of year people prepare to get their seasonal flu vaccination and, for the last few years, many have also included a COVID-19 vaccine shot. But under the new Trump administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it has remained murky as to whether or not a COVID shot would be available — and who should get it.

An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting Sept. 18-19 to make recommendations on the COVID shot, among others. Ahead of that, a South Carolina board is allowing pharmacists and others to administer the shots without a prescription and allows them to look at broader recommendations of who should get it.

Here are the issues.

There is confusion about getting COVID shots, but flu advice remains the same

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