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The timing of the FDA decision was highly unusual given that the agency typically takes action before the CDC convenes its own experts.

The timing of the FDA decision was highly unusual given that the agency typically takes action before the CDC convenes its own experts.

FDA backs covid boosters for seniors

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The United States moved a step closer Wednesday to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine to senior citizens and others at high risk from the virus as the Food and Drug Administration signed off on the targeted use of the extra shots.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday named physician and researcher Joseph Ladapo as state surgeon general. (RYAN DAILEY/News Service of Florida)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday named physician and researcher Joseph Ladapo as state surgeon general. (RYAN DAILEY/News Service of Florida)

DeSantis appoints doctor, researcher as surgeon general

NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Physician and researcher Joseph Ladapo was named Florida surgeon general on Tuesday, calling for being “done with fear” amid the covid-19 pandemic that has killed more than 51,000 of the state’s residents.
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 in New York. (EDUARDO MUNOZ/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 in New York. (EDUARDO MUNOZ/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Biden promises UN ‘relentless diplomacy’

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
UNITED NATIONS — President Joe Biden summoned the world’s nations to forcefully address the festering global issues of the covid-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses in his first address before the U.N. General Assembly  on Tuesday.

FBI searches Florida home of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, September 20, 2021
NORTH PORT  — FBI agents and police Monday searched the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered over the weekend at a Wyoming national park months after the couple set out on a cross-country road trip.
A health care professional holds a vial of the Moderna covid-19 vaccine on April 7 in Carmarthen, Wales. (JACOB KING/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

A health care professional holds a vial of the Moderna covid-19 vaccine on April 7 in Carmarthen, Wales. (JACOB KING/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. panel backs covid boosters only for elderly, high-risk

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, September 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer covid-19 booster shots to most Americans, but it endorsed the extra shots for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied 50,811 deaths after adding more than 1,500 covid-19 deaths provided Thursday by the state’s health department.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied 50,811 deaths after adding more than 1,500 covid-19 deaths provided Thursday by the state’s health department.

Florida surpasses 50K covid deaths after battling delta wave

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, September 17, 2021
MIAMI — Florida surpassed 50,000 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, health officials reported Thursday, with more than one fourth of those succumbing this summer as the state battled a fierce surge in infections fueled by the delta variant.