New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order that allows pharmacists to administer COVID-19 vaccines "to New Yorkers who request them," the governor’s office said Thursday evening, a sharp divergence from the Trump administration's limits on vaccinations.

The announcement occurred as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, faced withering questions from Republican and Democratic senators on Capitol Hill Thursday on reduced access to vaccines, and as other Democratic-run states also made moves to counter federal vaccine policies.

The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 approved updated COVID-19 vaccines but only for Americans 65 and older, and younger adults and children with health conditions that put them at higher risk for severe COVID-19. Previously,

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