A newly comprised federal panel tasked with providing vaccine guidance would add new safety warnings for COVID inoculations and almost required prescriptions to get the vaccine .

The move came after two days of deliberation over proposed changes to the administration and schedule of several vaccines. It remains unclear if the proposed changes could impact Washington state, which has joined a partnership of states on the West Coast to provide rival vaccine recommendations.

Traditionally nonpartisan, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been made of independent experts who create the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine recommendations for physicians across the country to follow. In June, U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. replaced all 17 members of th

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