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

Coronavirus

Only 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show

In the late summer, government health officials made the nation's COVID-19 vaccination campaign more like the annual flu campaign.
Politics

Texas lawmakers again try to prohibit private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines

A Senate panel on Tuesday advanced such a measure. The debate centered largely around whether doctors’ offices and health care facilities should be exempt.
Nation World

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.
Nation World

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.
Nation World

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.
Nation World

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.
Nation World

Senate passes defense bill rescinding COVID vaccine mandate

The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Nation World

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.