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Health officials argue the protection of the COVID vaccine booster wanes over time and say some people need a second booster. But other infectious disease experts say three shots are enough for now.
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Federal health officials have approved a second COVID-19 booster shot for those age 50 and older as well as certain immunocompromised people. The state health department says the approval means about 400,000 Montanans can get another shot.
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In a press release, Attorney General Austin Knudsen said it’s “far past time for this overbearing mandate to go.” He argues the rule, administered through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is arbitrary and oversteps the agency’s authority.
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The BA.2 strain now accounts for more than half of all coronavirus infections nationwide, the CDC estimates. Although it's fueling a surge in Europe, the variant doesn't appear to make people sicker.
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That's how the so-called "deltacron" variant — a mashup of delta and omicron — came to be. This process of recombining tells us a lot about the possible past and future of SARS-CoV-2.
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Though he fully expected to be infected with COVID, Dr. Thomas Fisher says he was committed to providing medical care to the Black community on Chicago's South Side. His new book is The Emergency.
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The state of Montana has returned roughly $53 million from its emergency rental assistance program to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The commerce department says it still has money for rental assistance and encourages those in need to apply.
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Low interest rates, high rents and working from home combined to push many young Americans to buy their first home over the last two years. But it's not without challenges.
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Montana’s governor pushed the state’s health workers to seek religious exemptions to a federal mandate to be vaccinated against COVID, but the number who have done so is unknown, leaving immunocompromised patients worried.
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A federal judge has blocked enforcement of a new Montana law that bans discrimination based on vaccination status as it applies to health care providers. Medical and nursing groups sued last year saying it jeopardizes their work.