White House launches COVID.gov amid push for more funds, booster shots

White House launches COVID.gov amid push for more funds, booster shots

 

The Biden administration on Wednesday (Mar 30) launched a new website to provide a clearinghouse of information on COVID-19 as part of a continuing effort to prepare Americans to live with the coronavirus.

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The launch of COVID.gov comes a day after US health officials approves a second booster shot for Americans age 50 and older and those who are immunocompromised, two years after the start of the pandemic.

President Joe Biden, who turned 79 in November, will receive his fourth dose of a COVID vaccine later on Wednesday when he delivers an update on the nation's fight against COVID-19 in remarks at the White House.

Biden, who is scheduled to speak at 1.30pm, has so far received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, although a fourth dose of Moderna's shot also was approved on Tuesday.

Nearly 982,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19 since early 2020 over several waves of the disease, according to a Reuters analysis of local data.

Although vaccines and increasingly available therapies for COVID-19 have reduced severe illness and deaths, public health officials are monitoring BA.2, an Omicron subvariant that now accounts for more than half of all US cases.

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