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Amy Bagley, 49, receives the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier

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Health officials consider another round of bivalent boosters for the most vulnerable Americans

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND - NOVEMBER 21: A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. While COVID-19 remains a serious concern for this holiday season, this year two other common respiratory viruses, influenza and RSV, are wreaking havoc particularly in the D.C. area, which is one of the regions with the highest flu activity in the country. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drive their vehicle as they leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei, Province on January 11, 2020, where the Wuhan health commission said that the man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods. - China said on January 11, 2020 that a 61-year-old man had become the first person to die from a respiratory illness believed to be caused by a new virus from the same family as SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which claimed hundreds of lives more than a decade ago. Forty-one people with pneumonia-like symptoms have so far been diagnosed with the new virus in Wuhan, with one of the victims dying on January 8, 2020, the central Chinese city's health commission said on its website. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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A sign of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis is seen on the top of a building at the company's campus on October 27, 2015 in Basel. Novartis said that its third-quarter net profit fell by 42 percent to $1.8 billion (1.64 billion euros), partially due to provisions to settle a US corruption case. However the world's largest pharmaceutical company in terms of sales confirmed its 2015 targets, including sales growth from continuing operations in mid-single digits excluding exchange rate effects and growth in operating income in the high single digits. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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22 August 2022, Saxony, Chemnitz: A medical-technical assistant prepares Escherichia coli strains for PCR analysis in a laboratory at the Saxony State Investigation Office (LUA) in Chemnitz. The aim of the LUA's work in the field of food safety and the safety of consumer goods and cosmetics is to protect consumers from hazards that can arise from unsafe food and materials and objects that are in prolonged contact with the body. Preventive consumer health protection is becoming increasingly important and is supported by the work of the LUA. The Saxon Ministry of Social Affairs has now presented the authority's annual report for 2021. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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