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FDA shortens timing of Moderna booster to 5 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday shortened the time that people who received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster — to five months rather than six. The two-dose Moderna vaccine is open to Americans 18 and older. The Food and Drug Administration's decision ...

Feds want marathon bomber’s COVID payment to go to victims

Federal prosecutors want convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to use a $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment he received as well as other money held in his inmate trust account to help pay the millions of dollars he was ordered to pay his victims. In a filing Wednesday, the U.S. ...

Test-and-stay program coming to child care centers

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts will offer a version of its school coronavirus "test-and-stay" program for child care centers in the upcoming weeks to help keep preschool children in classrooms and allow parents to work. "We know that our families are relying on child care to go to work," ...

Military staff step in to help strained London hospitals

LONDON (AP) — British troops were deploying Friday to hospitals in London that are struggling to cope with "exceptional" staff shortages amid the surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant. The Ministry of Defense said that it was sending some 40 military medics and 160 general ...

Thailand tightens entry requirements due to omicron spread

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand announced Friday it is tightening some entry restrictions while expanding its "sandbox" quarantine program, and urged people to follow social distancing and mask rules to control the spread of COVID-19 fueled by the omicron variant. The government did not announce ...