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Health officials tracking new COVID-19 variant, confusion grows over vaccine recommendations


Health officials are tracking a new COVID-19 variant. This comes as confusion grows over vaccine recommendations moving forward.

“This is probably one of the top three viruses in terms of how well it spreads between people, known to mankind since forever,” said Dr. Janko Nikolich, Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. “What is really important to understand is that this variant is not more severe,” said Dr. Christian Brechot, Professor of Medicine at USF and Vice Chair of the Board of the Global Virus Network. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary, recently announced that the CDC no longer recommends routine COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.

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