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WHO urges COVID boosters across the globe

GENEVA (AP) —An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of omicron, capping a reversal of the U.N. agency’s repeated insistence last year that boosters weren’t necessary for healthy people and contributed to vaccine inequity. In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunization with authorized COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against severe disease and death amid the continuing spread of the hugely ...

State: Only four new COVID cases in Dickinson, one in Iron

State data Monday had only four new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and one in Iron County since Friday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Monday added 38 more confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula for the three-day period: 11 in ...

State: Nine new virus cases in Dickinson, six in Iron

State data Friday had nine new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and six in Iron County since Wednesday. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 69 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula for the two-day ...

DIDHD: Past week adds 11 virus cases in Iron, nine in Dickinson

Local COVID-19 data Thursday for the past week showed more new confirmed positives in Iron County at 11 — along with two more deaths blamed on the virus — than in Dickinson County at nine. Both totals are far reduced from what was seen in late January, at the height of the omicron ...

States left with huge stockpile as vaccine demand falls

As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste. From some of the least vaccinated states, such as Indiana and North Dakota, to some of the most vaccinated states like New Jersey and Vermont, public health departments are shuffling doses around in the hopes of finding providers that can use them. State health departments told The Associated Press they have tracked millions of doses that went to waste, including ones that ...

State: Four new virus positives in Iron, two in Dickinson

State data Wednesday had more new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County at four than Dickinson County with only two added since Monday. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday indicated 71 new confirmed positives in the Upper ...