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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Pfizer over COVID-19 vaccine

Special Session

Texas lawmakers again try to prohibit private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines

A Senate panel on Tuesday advanced such a measure. The debate centered largely around whether doctors’ offices and health care facilities should be exempt.
Nation World

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.
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.
Nation World

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.
Nation World

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.
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.
VERIFY

Moderna will likely increase its COVID-19 vaccine price once government supply ends

Vaccines paid for by the U.S. government are expected to run out soon. That has some concerned about what it will do to prices.
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.
Military News

U.S. troops will no longer be required to get COVID-19 shots

President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included the Republican-driven provision to roll back the vaccine mandate for military members.
Local News

Travis County's mobile vaccine clinics to close at year's end

The effort was first launched in February 2021.
Nation World

Senate passes defense bill rescinding COVID vaccine mandate

The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.