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WILMINGTON, CA - JULY 27: Nursing student Joanna Aguilar is drawing medicine into a syringe at a vaccination clinic at the Providence Wellness and Activity Center on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 in Wilmington, CA. Escalating COVID-19 cases are threatening a new surge in Southern California . Providence is holding three-day COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Wilmington for people 12 years old and up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 27-29. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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A man enters the Regeneron Clinic at a monoclonal antibody treatment site in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on August 19, 2021. - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the opening of the Covid-19 antibody treatment site. DeSantis continues to promote the monoclonal antibody treatments as cases and hospitalizations spike in Florida. Starting Wednesday, C.B. Smith Park will start offering the antibody treatment from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. The site will be able to treat over 300 patients a day. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-vaccine, anti-mask governors push an experimental antibody therapy

FILE - This Thursday, May 13, 2021 file photo shows syringes filled with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at a mobile vaccination site in Miami. A news conference by doctors in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, to urge the public to get vaccinated as COVID-19 infections surge in the state was undermined online as false reports claimed the physicians had walked off the job. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Johnson & Johnson says COVID-19 booster shot triggered an antibody surge

TORRANCE-CA-JULY 7, 2021: Student Sora Fukaya, 22, sits down to receive a Pfizer vaccination shot at El Camino College in Torrance on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 as the college hosts a one-day COVID-19 vaccination clinic on campus, run by Providence, open to the public for individuals aged 12 and up. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

The FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer vaccine. What does that mean?

FILE - In this April 18, 2017 file photo, a woman with Type 2 diabetes prepares to inject herself with insulin at her home in Las Vegas. Overweight or obese Americans should start getting screened for diabetes and prediabetes earlier, at age 35 instead of 40, according to national guidelines updated on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Earlier diabetes tests recommended for overweight U.S. adults

Smithsonian research geologist Rich Barclay holds a tray of Late Cretaceous ginkgo leaf fossils from Alaska's North Slope.

Fossil leaves may reveal climate in last era of dinosaurs

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York. Pfizer announced Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, more results in its ongoing coronavirus vaccine study that suggest the shots are 95% effective a month after the first dose. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

U.S. regulators give full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

FILE - This May 4, 2020, file photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. On Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, Pfizer said an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine poised to get full FDA approval next week, source says

President Joe Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug 18, 2021, on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program. U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to offer COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines' effectiveness is falling. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘We sent a terrible message’: Scientists say Biden jumped the gun with booster plan

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Syringes loaded with Pfizer vaccine are ready to be used at an open COVID-19 vaccination site at the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 27, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday, new recommendations that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging and also recommended indoor masks for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 23: The Mendez family David, Marcela, and Davids father Guillermo visiting from Guatemala depart after getting the Covid vaccine at the Pico Union Project located at 1153 Valencia where Curative is offering Covid testing and a choice of Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine on Friday morning. We're asking the few that attended what has finally motivated people to get vaccinated. Pico Union Project on Friday, July 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

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FILE - This June 14, 2021, file photo shows a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial that is being administered for flight attendants of Japan Airlines ar Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Japan’s health ministry said Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 that it is suspending use of about 1.63 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna Inc. after contamination was found in portions of unused vials, raising concern of a supply shortage as the country desperately tries to accelerate vaccinations amid the surge of infections. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan suspends 1.63 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses over contamination fears

Japan’s suspension of 1.63 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses over contamination concerns comes as the country grapples with a coronavirus surge.

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