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    Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends In The United States
    Why Is the CDC Now Treating COVID Like It’s the Flu?The CDC’s new “Pan-respiratory” isolation guidelines make sense to many public-health experts, but there could be some downsides, too.
    By Chas Danner
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    Yes, a Lot of People Are Getting Sick Right NowThe flu, COVID, and RSV are driving respiratory-illness activity up nationwide.
    By Chas Danner
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    Why You Shouldn’t Be Panicking About Pneumonia OutbreaksThe reemergence of childhood pneumonia and mycoplasma pneumonia in China and elsewhere is no COVID-like crisis but a return to post-pandemic normal.
    By Chas Danner
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    What to Know About the Newest COVID Booster ShotsNewly reformulated boosters from Pfizer and Moderna have gotten the green light from the FDA and CDC and should be available as soon as Thursday.
    By Chas Danner
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    What to Know About the New COVID Mini-WaveCOVID metrics are ticking up across the country — and that now includes inside the White House — but there’s no need to panic.
    By Chas Danner
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    Is America’s Pandemic Really Over?With the official end of the U.S. public-health emergency fast approaching, things are looking pretty good.
    By Chas Danner
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    Was It the Raccoon Dog All Along?What to make of the latest evidence suggesting COVID had a natural — not laboratory — origin.
    By Chas Danner
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    Mad ScientistsNowhere is the lab-leak debate more personal than among the experts investigating the origins of COVID.
    By James D. Walsh
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    The FDA Wants COVID Boosters to Be Like Annual Flu ShotsThe agency’s new proposal aims to simplify booster development and administration, but some experts are skeptical.
    By Chas Danner
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    XBB.1.5 Dominates New York COVID Cases, Rising NationallyThe newly emerged recombinant COVID strain is estimated to account for more than 80 percent of cases in the Northeast.
    By Chas Danner
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    Has Long COVID Always Existed?The pandemic might not have spawned a new chronic illness but rebranded an old one.
    By Jeff Wise
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    What We Know About the New and Rising COVID VariantsThe next generation of more immune-evasive Omicron subvariants is beginning to take over from BA.5, including the fast-rising BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 strains.
    By Chas Danner
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    Flu Season Is Here Early and Will Probably Be BrutalMultiple warning lights are already flashing, so go get your flu shot if you haven’t already.
    By Chas Danner
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    The Big Remaining Questions About the New Bivalent COVID BoostersSome of the concerns are valid, others aren’t, but none should prevent people from getting the shot if they want to.
    By Chas Danner
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    What to Know About the New COVID Booster ShotsReformulated booster shots have arrived. Here’s how they are different and who can get them.
    By Chas Danner
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    Paging Dr. NormalcyAshish Jha, the COVID czar, wants to make vaccines great again.
    By James D. Walsh
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    Biden Tests Positive for COVID AgainThe president is apparently experiencing a Paxlovid rebound infection, which happens to a small fraction of people treated with the antiviral.
    By Chas Danner
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    BA.5 Shows COVID Is Evolving Fast. Why Aren’t We Fighting Back?A long talk with Dr. Eric Topol about the BA.5 wave, next-gen vaccines, and why it’s long past time for the U.S. to get ahead of the coronavirus.
    By Chas Danner
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    Biden Is Officially COVID-FreeThe president will soon be putting remote work in the rearview mirror.
    By Nia Prater
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    When Will the BA.5 Wave End?By every available metric, the surge of U.S. COVID cases continues to grow, and hospitalizations are now rising as well.
    By Chas Danner
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    What Is the Risk of Catching BA.5 Outdoors?More transmissible variants are more transmissible no matter where you are exposed, but avoiding COVID outside is a lot like avoiding it inside.
    By Chas Danner
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    The BA.5 COVID Surge Is HereThe worrisome Omicron subvariant, which is better at reinfecting people than any other, is now the most dominant strain in the U.S.
    By Chas Danner
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    This New COVID Wave May Be More Like a FloodWith the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants rising, the U.S. may be stuck with high levels of infection and reinfection for a while.
    By Chas Danner
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    Welcome to the Next COVID WaveThe new wave fueled by the BA.2.12.1 subvariant might not be as big or bad as the last one, but there are still plenty of ways it can go wrong.
    By Chas Danner
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    The COVID Vaccine News Many Parents Have Been Waiting ForPfizer has finally filed for FDA approval for a three-dose COVID vaccine for kids under the age of 5.
    By Matt Stieb