NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in Study includes multiple variant vaccines. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Adults interested in joining this study should visit clinicaltrials.gov and search identifier NCT05289037 for a list of sites and contacts.

Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, but strain on hospitals persists Fewer people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the United States now than at any other point in the pandemic, but hospitals and staff continue to feel the strain. Deidre McPhillips, CNN CNN

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After two years, the final US military medical Covid-19 deployments are ending First, it was a smaller hospital with fewer than 200 beds in Farmington, New Mexico, where the high desert borders the Navajo Nation. Then, it was a massive university hospital in bustling Salt Lake City, Utah, with about 800 staffed beds. Jacqueline Howard, CNN CNN

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Despite Doctors’ Concerns, Pharmacists Get More Leeway to Offer Treatment With Testing In the battle against covid, pharmacies became a key place for consumers to seek vaccines and testing. Some states are expanding pharmacists’ work to include directly prescribing drugs for customer… khnkit Kaiser Health News

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he easy availability of pharmacists also helped propel them into a key role during the pandemic as they became a go-to resource for covid-19 testing and vaccines. Yet even before covid engulfed the country, many states were giving pharmacists a bigger role in consumers’ health.

New Hampshire's state-run vaccination sites permanently closing All 11 state-managed COVID-19 vaccination sites are set to close for good at 7 p.m. Thursday Ray Brewer WMUR

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Michigan says it won’t adopt new CDC guidelines without ‘additional information’ Michigan will not follow updated quarantine and isolation guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) until the state acquires more information, health authorities sai… Brad Dress The Hill

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