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RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

Health

FDA approves COVID booster, government no longer covering the cost of vaccinations

People 12 and older can get the shot. It is recommended for people 65 and older and those with health conditions to get the shot as well.
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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.
Health

Moderna vaccine says new booster works against new COVID strain

The new booster, which can be rolling out as soon as next week, comes as COVID numbers are on the rise.
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.
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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.
Coronavirus

3 years later: COVID-19 pandemic

It's been three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in East Tennessee. We remember the lives we lost and celebrate the advances in medicine since then.
Health

East TN study to combine COVID, flu shot

A study will soon launch that combines your flu and COVID vaccine into one shot. The researcher heading up the trial wats your help.
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.
Health

TDH: Two pediatric deaths confirmed due to influenza

One death was in Middle Tennessee and the other was in the East Grand Division, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.

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Knoxville Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports | WBIR.com

RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

FDA approves COVID booster, government no longer covering the cost of vaccinations

Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine

Moderna vaccine says new booster works against new COVID strain

The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people

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

Appeals court blocks vaccine mandate for US government workers

3 years later: COVID-19 pandemic

East TN study to combine COVID, flu shot

US proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans

No, the COVID-19 vaccines can’t cause or create new variants

TDH: Two pediatric deaths confirmed due to influenza

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