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Fact check: When should you get the COVID-19 vaccine?

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Verify: When is the best time to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available to pharmacies and doctors offices, many are wondering when to get their booster shot. Meghan Bragg verifies.
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Does your weight determine what size need you need for a vaccine? VERIFY

The CDC has a list of recommendations for how long the needle should be for administering a vaccine, depending on your age and weight.
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RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

The recommendation comes a month after the CDC recommended another option: lab-made antibodies given to infants younger than 8 months as way to prevent severe RSV.
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VERIFY: Can you get the updated COVID-19 vaccine for free in Mecklenburg County?

The CDC is also launching the Bridge Access program to ensure that people who are uninsured or underinsured will still have a way to get the vaccine for free.
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Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine

CDC advisers endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency's director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel's recommendation.
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The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people

Social media posts claim that the CDC said a new COVID subvariant is more contagious in vaccinated people than in unvaccinated people. That’s false.
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US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

The move marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.
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Appeals court blocks vaccine mandate for US government workers

The ruling from the full appeals court reverses an earlier ruling from a smaller three-judge panel that upheld the vaccine requirement.
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US proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans

The FDA will present data this week suggesting most Americans have enough protection against coronavirus to move to a once-a-year shots.
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The post-holiday COVID-19 wave continues. Here are 3 things you should know

Doctors say the latest version of COVID-19 is the most transmissible but also potentially less severe than prior strains. Here's why viruses tend to trend that way.
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No, the COVID-19 vaccines can’t cause or create new variants

COVID-19 vaccines will slow the spread of the virus and do not cause or create the variants.