ATLANTA — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers declined to recommend this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations for anyone, leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.

Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine step in the fall for nearly all Americans who wanted them, just like a yearly flu vaccine.

The Food and Drug Administration already had placed new restrictions on this year’s shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax, reserving them for people over 65 or younger ones who are deemed at higher risk from the virus.

In a series of votes Friday, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided not to recommend them even for high-risk populations like seniors — instead deciding that people could make individual decisions.

The panel

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