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Gov. JB Pritzker has directed the Illinois Department of Public Health to develop independent guidelines for administering common vaccines, including flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines.

The action comes in response to recent changes in federal guidelines as well as personnel shakeups at federal health agencies initiated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Illinois is among several states that have begun developing their own vaccine protocols in the wake of changes in federal policy.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois is among a growing list of states that are issuing their own vaccine guidelines that could supersede those of the federal Centers for Dis

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