Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection

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Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection

Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster…

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Being ‘fully vaccinated’ but not boosted won’t stop Omicron

Two shots of COVID-19 vaccine without an additional booster offer essentially no lasting protection against infection with Omicron, and a coronavirus infection is as effective as a recent booster shot…

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WHO: Omicron makes China’s ‘zero-COVID’ policy unsustainable

Placeholder while article actions load GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization said China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature…

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South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing…

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What We Know About All the Omicron Subvariants

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Whether you’re paying attention to the latest phase of the pandemic or not, the coronavirus is still evolving, and the subvariants are starting to add…

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Omicron Subvariant BA.2.12.1 Likely To Become Dominant U.S. COVID Strain

A coronavirus subvariant called omicron BA.2.12.1, first spotted in upstate New York, is likely to become the dominant strain in the United States in the coming weeks, according to The…

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Slog PM: Concrete Strike Collapses, New Omicron Variant Drops, and the Academy Bans Will Smith from the Oscars – Slog

Barred from sitting through the Oscars for a decade? And here I thought the Academy was trying to punish him. Neilson Barnard / GETTY Welp, so much for the concrete…

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Covid in DC: What to know about the risks of Omicron and BA.2

The answer, like much else throughout the coronavirus pandemic, is complicated because it depends on individuals’ personal risk thresholds. And no public outing bears zero risk — especially a formal…

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New Omicron Subvariant Reaches New York: Should I Worry About BA.2?

“We’re not eating indoors or going to bars or a lot of stuff we’d like to do,” Jim Cashman, 47, said Friday afternoon, as he waited with his family at…

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South Korea’s omicron deaths surge amid faltering response

The 621,266 new coronavirus cases diagnosed by health workers were also a record daily jump, shattering Wednesday’s previous high of 400,624. That pushed the national caseload to over 8.2 million,…

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