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You Have Covid Booster Shot Questions, We Have Answers: Yahoo News Explains
This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed COVID-19 booster shots of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, as well as a mix-and-match approach. It will allow tens of millions of Americans to get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots and have the flexibility to get a booster shot that is different from their primary series. Dr. Lucy McBride, who specializes in internal medicine, explains what we need to know about who can receive a booster, and how the mix-and-match approach works.
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COVID boosters: CDC Director Walensky lays out guidance for additional vaccine doses
In a White House COVID-19 response team briefing on Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky walked through the latest guidance on booster shots for all three of the approved COVID-19 vaccines.
NewsYahoo News UKThe UK's 20 COVID hotspots as cases surge above 50,000 per day
52,009 COIVD-19 cases were confirmed in the UK on Thursday - the highest number of daily reported cases since 17 July.
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Nadler scolds GOP lawmakers for not wearing masks at House Judiciary hearing
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called out Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia as he reminded lawmakers in attendance to wear face masks.
NewsYahoo News UKJacob Rees Mogg: Tory MPs don't need masks because of our 'convivial spirit'
The Leader of the House of Commons said Tory MPs don't need masks due to their 'convivial, fraternal spirit'.
NewsYahoo News UKPeople 'should use their own judgment on wearing masks', says health minister
Edward Argar said it was up to individuals to decide whether to wear masks or not.
NewsYahoo News UKSajid Javid: Tory MPs should be wearing masks in parliament
The health secretary said public figures 'have a role to play to set an example'.
NewsYahoo News UKHow many people have had a booster jab in England?
The highest figure for daily reported deaths from COVID since March was recorded on Tuesday.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus Plan B: The three things that could trigger winter COVID restrictions
As the government insisted it currently doesn't plan to trigger its 'Plan B' of winter COVID restrictions, here are the three key areas which could see rules reintroduced this year.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKFrank Sinatra knocked off the top of the funeral song charts
Sinatra's 'My Way' had been the most popular song played at funerals - but this year it was 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.
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Fla. educator calls violent threats, harassment she endured ‘domestic terrorism’
Jennifer Jenkins is an educator and Brevard County, Fla., school board member who supports mask mandates in schools. A video of an Oct. 12 board meeting, at which she she spoke about calculated efforts from people who threatened, harassed and intimidated her and her family because she supports COVID-19 mitigation efforts in school, went viral. Jenkins spoke to Yahoo News about the threats and what she believes started the tension within her community after she defeated a well-known Republican incumbent by a slim margin.
NewsYahoo News UKEarly vaccine rollout means Britons 'more vulnerable' to COVID than other Europeans
Professor Neil Ferguson said there are a number of reasons why the UK's infection rate is higher than that of other European nations.
NewsYahoo News UKThe three numbers that show the UK's coronavirus situation is getting worse
COVID cases, deaths and hospitalisations are all increasing on a weekly basis, government figures show.
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Biden announces the U.S. will donate 17M COVID doses to the African Union
At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, President Biden announced that the U.S. will donate 17 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to the African Union. Biden said the move would supplement an earlier 50-million dose donation from the U.S. to the AU.
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FDA advisory panel unanimously recommends Moderna booster for certain at-risk groups
On Thursday, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend Moderna booster shots at a half dose of 50 micrograms for emergency use authorization for similar at-risk groups as the Pfizer booster vaccine. The decision now goes to the FDA, which is expected to make a final decision in the coming days.
NewsYahoo News UK20 COVID hotspots as UK records second highest infections in the world
Only the US is recording more daily cases than the UK.
HealthThe GuardianCovid vaccines for US children are coming but challenge will be persuading parents
Covid vaccines for US children are coming but challenge will be persuading parents. Authorization for kids aged 5-11 is inching closer but only a third of parents plan to take up the shots as soon as vaccines are ready
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WH: ‘Politics’ is why Gov. Abbott is challenging vaccine mandates
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked why she thinks Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is banning federal vaccine mandates, to which she replied that he is putting politics over the health of the people he is governing.
NewsYahoo News UKThe 115-word passage that sums up how Boris Johnson's government wasted £37bn during the pandemic
NHS Test and Trace failed in its objectives and was not good value for the taxpayer, the report concluded.
NewsYahoo News UKRevealed: The region where unemployment is recovering slowest after COVID
Many areas of the UK have rebounded strongly since the end of lockdown, but others are struggling.
NewsYahoo News UK'Why can’t you say sorry?': Minister refuses to apologise 11 times over damning COVID report
Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay dodged repeated calls for an apology for the government's handling of the pandemic.
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Mayorkas: Title 42 'is not an immigration policy that we in this administration would embrace'
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that “it’s a heartbreaking thing to see” asylum seekers continuing to be turned away from the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump-era Title 42 authority. During the discussion, which was originally broadcast as part of the Soufan Center’s 2021 Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar, Mayorkas added that Title 42 “is not an immigration policy that we in this administration would embrace, but we view it as a public health imperative as the Centers for Disease Control has so ordered.”
NewsYahoo News UKJeremy Vine left 'unnerved' after anti-vaxxers turn up at his home
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine shared videos of anti-vaxxers turning up at his home to serve an 'anti-vaxx writ'.
NewsYahoo News UKParents threaten to sue school if children are given coronavirus vaccines without consent
Parents at Tretherras School, in Newquay, Cornwall, have signed a "cease and desist" legal notice.
NewsYahoo News UKHundreds of schools urged to bring back bubbles and contact tracing amid rise in COVID cases
Staffordshire County Council has reportedly recommended that COVID measures including bubbles and contact-tracing should be reintroduced in schools in the county.
