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New vaccines will be available by the end of week.

With COVID hospitalizing about 17,000 people a week in the US, according to the CDC, the CDCs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted nearly unanimously in favor of new XBB-containing shots.

It is not uncommon for legislators to introduce bills that they know won’t pass but that have symbolic value of some sort, like renaming a bridge or freeway to honor a constituent. Every so often, however, they propose something that is so completely idiotic, anti-social, and authoritarian that it becomes the very personification of irresponsibility. Two examples come to mind, one last February, the other this month.

As COVID-19 hospitalizations tick upward with fall approaching, the CDC says it’s time for new boosters — and not only for those at highest risk of serious disease. Here are

Vaccine experts considered narrower recommendations for only higher-risk groups, but decided almost all Americans could benefit.

<b>(CNN) — </b>Everyone ages 6 months and older should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday, to help lower the risk of severe illness, hospitalization or death from the coronavirus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Americans aged six months or older receive the new version of the Covid-19 vaccines that are…

New vaccines will be available by the end of week.

Several virus families that are closely related to XBB.1.5 are now dominating transmission in the United States.

Here's what Connecticut residents should know about the updated COVID-19 shots approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday.