After a week of fast-moving shakeups at the nation's health agency, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will come before the powerful Senate Finance Committee , which has oversight over his department, on Thursday for hours of questioning that is sure to center on his vaccine policy. It comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) significantly narrowed access to the COVID-19 vaccine , a move that precipitated a public fallout and ousting of the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Susan Monarez. Four top CDC officials also resigned in protest. The new FDA approval for COVID shots allows for people who are aged 65 and older to get the vaccine, or younger Americans who have an underlying condition that puts them

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