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Health Jan 28
An FDA advisory panel endorsed a one-shot approach to COVID-19 vaccination. Here’s what that meansBy Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus.
By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
In our news wrap Wednesday, a jury in Florida starts deliberating on whether Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to death, seven more people were killed in Ukraine as Russia fired missiles and artillery rounds into major cities…
The number of confirmed and reported COVID cases in the U.S. is at its lowest point since last spring. But the average number of deaths associated with COVID remains at more than 350 a day. Public health experts are increasingly…
By John Yang
The reformulated vaccines are specifically tailored to combat the two most prevalent omicron subvariants: BA.4 and BA.5.
By Prakash Nagarkatti, Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation
In our news wrap Thursday, judges in Kentucky and Florida became the latest to block new abortion limits since the end of Roe v. Wade, Hong Kong prepares for the 25th anniversary of its return from British to Chinese rule,…
By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas
More than two years into this pandemic, the United States death toll is the highest in the world. The country is closing in on 900,000 deaths, and its death rate is alarming -- particularly given that the U.S. was the…
France's government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on unvaccinated people to get coronavirus jabs.
By Lorne Cook, Associated Press
The European Union is warning members that they risk undermining the 27-nation bloc’s COVID-19 travel and access certificate system with new uncoordinated restrictions some are introducing to try to thwart a surge in cases.
By Lauren Neergaard and Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agrees, tens of millions more Americans could have three doses of protection ahead of the new year. Anyone who got the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine can already get a booster.
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