Coronavirus Update: CDC meets in wake of limited FDA booster-shot authorization
A team of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to wrap up a two-day meeting Thursday on booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines, just hours after the Food and Drug Administration authorized their use for senior citizens and those at elevated risk of severe disease.
Read: Whether COVID-19 boosters get approved or not, Pfizer and Moderna have already made their money Alaska has replaced West Virginia as the state with the highest number of new cases measured on a per capita basis, the tracker shows. Alaska is averaging 117 new cases a day per 100,000 people, the highest such level in the nation. Alaska has vaccinated 50% of its population, below the national average of 54.9%, according to a CDC tracker.
The restrictions will not recognize vaccines locally administered in the African Union — even though some of those shots came from the U.K.
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