More blue states are breaking from the Trump administration and forging their own paths on vaccine policies, moves that a Biden-era official said could weaken a public health response, Axios reported Friday.

A West Coast Health Alliance and a similar movement in the Northeast come after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines and ended the FDA’s broader authorization of the shots, limiting use to people at higher risk of severe illness.

Since then, pharmacy chain CVS has cut back on locations where the updated annual COVID-19 vaccine will be offered. The company decided it would not offer the vaccine in 16 states, citing the current “regulatory environment.”

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