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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Pfizer over COVID-19 vaccine

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Study: 1 of every 4 U.S. adults planning to get next COVID booster shot

The FDA approved the updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and gave emergency authorization in September.
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RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

The recommendation comes a month after the CDC recommended another option: lab-made antibodies given to infants younger than 8 months as way to prevent severe RSV.
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Walgreens scheduling appointments for new COVID vaccines

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.
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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.
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CDC panel to meet about newly-approved COVID vaccine boosters

Like earlier versions, the vaccines are expected to be most protective against severe illness, hospitalization and death, rather than mild infection.
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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.
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VERIFY: New COVID-19 booster vaccines not available yet

Officials from Pfizer and Moderna announced in June that they submitted updated boosters for the FDA to authorize.
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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.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations decreasing, over 50 deaths reported, officials say

This is now the 20th straight day the department has reported fewer than 500 hospitalizations for the North Texas area.
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Over 80 COVID-related deaths reported across North Texas in January; hospitalizations decreasing, officials say

This is now the fourth straight day COVID-19 hospitalizations in the North Texas area have remained below 700.