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US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

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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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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.
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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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Biden receives updated COVID-19 booster shot, promotes vaccine

Biden used Tuesday's White House occasion to urge everyone to get boosted to ensure they stay healthy over the holidays.

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LOCAL 5 FORECAST: The Heat is On!

Expect the warmth to continue through the weekend with slight rain chances on Sunday.
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Polk County Sheriff's Office: Motorcyclist dies after Friday night accident

A passerby noticed a light in a ditch near SE 112th Street and SE 32nd Avenue around 9 p.m., where they found an unresponsive male and a motorcycle.

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Canada will soon begin printing warning labels on individual cigarettes

The wording will appear in English and French, warning smokers about harming children, damaging organs and causing impotence and leukemia.
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First-of-its-kind Mars livestream by ESA spacecraft interrupted at times by rain on Earth

The transmission was disrupted at times by weather in Spain, home to the deep space-relay antenna.