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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend the agency let certain groups of Americans get Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.

The 19–0 vote followed an all-virtual meeting that featured hours of discussions, presentations and deliberations over who should qualify. The panel ultimately advised the FDA to release the shots for 

The U.S. economy added 232,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate fell from 5.4% to 5.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. It's the lowest monthly number of jobs added since January. Economists predicted that roughly 750,000 jobs would be added; reports across the spectrum cited the recent rise in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Delta variant as reasons for the slowed

The U.S. recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 new cases Monday, a single-day record for any country since the pandemic began.

The record 1,082,549 cases reported by Johns Hopkins University comes amid the spread of the contagious but apparently mild Omicron variant. It's nearly double the previous U.S. record of 590,000 cases set over the weekend. Hospitalizations are also rising, but

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines on Tuesday regarding mask-wearing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The new "interim public health recommendations" say vaccinated people don't have to wear a mask outside unless in a crowded group of people; the CDC says vaccinated people should still avoid indoor large-sized in-person gatherings. Twenty-nine percent