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White House urges caution on COVID variants, pushes boosters
The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.
Coronavirus Files: FDA advisors back Novavax; Moderna claims once-a-year booster
An updated preprint finds that American Indian and Alaska Native populations took the biggest hit to life expectancy of any American race during the pandemic.
Coronavirus Files: COVID funds hit another stumbling block as FDA deliberates on boosters
Communities in lower-income U.S. counties suffered twice the COVID-19 death rate of wealthier American counties according to a new Poor People’s Pandemic Report, writes Ed Pilkington at The Guardian.
Who really needs a second COVID booster? Here’s what to know
Many Americans now can get a second COVID-19 booster, but it’s hard to tell who really needs another shot right now and who could wait.
Coronavirus Files: Boosters hold up against omicron but Black Americans hit hard in winter surge
Recent data indicates that during the winter surge, non-Hispanic Black adults were hospitalized at higher rates than any other ethnic group, at any time in the pandemic, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
