A key federal vaccine advisory committee is meeting to discuss and vote on its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations Friday, with potential implications for insurance coverage and access in New York.

The recommendations from the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices have traditionally determined which vaccines pharmacies in New York can offer, which patients they can vaccinate and which vaccines health plans will cover.

But the recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines are coming late this year, about three weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the latest versions of the shots. They're also coming from a newly overhauled committee that Health and Human Services Secretary John F. Kennedy Jr. has stacked with vaccine skeptics .

As a result, New York has alrea

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