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CDC vaccine policy recommendations grind to a halt under Health Secretary Kennedy

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new flu vaccine that tested well in older adults. But the federal agency responsible for telling doctors and the general public how to use it has made no recommendation on it.

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