A federal panel tasked with helping craft vaccine policy decided Friday against providing specific recommendations for the updated COVID-19 shot, instead leaving it to "individual-based decision making" for those 6 months and older, which could require discussions with a health care provider in some states.

The board also narrowly defeated a proposal that would have recommended states require anyone who wants the vaccine to get a prescription.

New Yorkers aren’t expected to be directly impacted by the decisions from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — appointed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he dismissed the previous members — since state health officials released guidelines on

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