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RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns
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Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
CDC advisers endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency's director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel's recommendation.
Vaccine
The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people
Social media posts claim that the CDC said a new COVID subvariant is more contagious in vaccinated people than in unvaccinated people. That’s false.
Health
New RSV vaccine showing positive results in early trials
“If we can keep patients out of the hospital, it’s better for them, better for their health," said Dr. Jeff Brock with MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.
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US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
The move marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.
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Appeals court blocks vaccine mandate for US government workers
The ruling from the full appeals court reverses an earlier ruling from a smaller three-judge panel that upheld the vaccine requirement.
Vaccine
US proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans
The FDA will present data this week suggesting most Americans have enough protection against coronavirus to move to a once-a-year shots.
Vaccine
No, the COVID-19 vaccines can’t cause or create new variants
COVID-19 vaccines will slow the spread of the virus and do not cause or create the variants.
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Senate passes defense bill rescinding COVID vaccine mandate
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
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House passes defense bill scrapping COVID vaccine mandate
To win bipartisan support for the bill, Democrats agreed to Republican demands to scrap the requirement for service members to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
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China launches a COVID-19 vaccine inhaled through the mouth
About a dozen nasal vaccines are being tested worldwide, but this appears to be the first oral vaccine for COVID in the world.
Vaccine
Health officials: Fall booster campaign not going as planned
Data from earlier this month shows almost four thousand people in Dallas County have received their bivalent booster dose.
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