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A Spanish COVID-19 vaccination information sheet lays on a table, March 25, 2022.

San Diego County's COVID-19 hospitalizations fall to 252

The number of those patients hospitalized Saturday who were in intensive care increased by two to 25, and the number of available hospital beds increased by five to 237.

Gearing up for fall, health officials are recommending a new round of booster shots.

Omicron boosters: Do I need one, and if so, when?

Updated COVID boosters are now available for anyone age 12 or older. The CDC is urging anyone who is eligible to sign up but some vaccine experts say some people might want to wait.

Sikhulile Moyo, the laboratory director at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute and a research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, headed the team that identified the omicron variant.

Whatever happened to the Botswana scientist who identified omicron — then caught it?

Sikhulile Moyo led the team that first identified omicron — and was dismayed by the world's reaction — blaming and blacklisting African nations. He's now a bit more optimistic.

A San Diego County resident getting a COVID-19 booster shot on Nov. 11, 2021.

New COVID-19 boosters on the way as case numbers continue to decline

The bivalent boosters were developed to generate an immune response from the original COVID-19 virus and BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attends a Senate hearing in Washington last July. She spoke to NPR shortly after the CDC recommended updated booster shots.

There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says

People can get the Moderna booster if they're 18 or older, and the Pfizer-BioNTech version if they're 12 and up. In both cases, they must wait at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.

Vials of the reformulated Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster move through production at a plant in Kalamazoo, Mich.

CDC recommends new booster shots to fight omicron

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has signed off on updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that target the original virus and the omicron subvariants.

A man getting the COVID-19 vaccine at the Grossmont Center Mall vaccination "super station" in La Mesa, Feb. 2, 2021.

Q&A: Omicron-specific booster and other COVID-19 news

With case rates falling, Americans will soon have the choice to receive an omicron specific booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Vials of the newly reformulated COVID-19 vaccine booster are being readied by Pfizer for distribution now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized the shots for people 12 and older.

FDA authorizes first revamp of COVID vaccines to target omicron

The new shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants that most people are catching now.

<em></em>Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from COVID-19. In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.

Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

Members of the group Border Kindness drop water and other supplies for migrants in the Jacumba Wilderness, Aug. 13, 2022.

Crossing Imperial County’s open desert, migrants increasingly find death

Migrant deaths along the Southwest border have long been a fact of life in the region, but the latest available records show the deaths could be on the rise again.

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