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Giancarlo Santos gets a check-up from Dr. Akil Merchant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The more pandemic precautions fall away, the more COVID risk is concentrated on this one group

When everyone around them stops taking pandemic precautions, it gets harder for immunocompromised Americans to protect themselves against COVID.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Marc Tessier-Lavigne attends the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )

Stanford president’s scientific papers draw scrutiny

El director general de Tesla Elon Musk habla durante un evento en Hawthorne, California, el 14 de marzo de 2019. (AP Foto/Jae C. Hong)

Musk’s Neuralink hopes to implant computer in human brain in six months

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. They also say they are providing more monkeypox vaccine, working to expand testing, and taking other steps to try to get ahead of the outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, file)

Africa, the continent most affected by mpox, is finally to receive its first vaccines

photo illustration of repeating chimps typing on a vintage typewriter

Strange coincidences: Are they fluke events or acts of God?

In-camera multiple exposure of the solar eclipse as seen in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 21, 2017.

Five of history’s craziest coincidences

A child wearing a face mask and riding on a scooter passes by a worker in protective suit on his way to collect COVID samples from the lockdown residents in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. More cities eased anti-virus restrictions as Chinese police tried to head off protests Thursday while the ruling Communist Party prepared for the high-profile funeral of the late leader Jiang Zemin. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Some Chinese cities relax coronavirus controls but step up security after protests

BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 30: An epidemic control worker wears PPE to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as he gives a nucleic acid test to a resident as others wait in line wearing face shields before leaving by bus from an area with communities in lockdown on November 30, 2022 in Beijing, China. In recent days, China has been recording its highest number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, as authorities are sticking to their strict zero tolerance approach to containing the virus with lockdowns, mandatory testing, mask mandates, and quarantines as it struggles to contain outbreaks.In an effort to try to bring rising cases under control, the government last week closed most stores and restaurants for inside dining, switched schools to online studies, and told people to work from home among other measures. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

‘Zero COVID’ is roiling China. But ending the policy may cause a massive health disaster

FILE - A collection of illegal guns is displayed during a gun buyback event, Saturday May 22, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Individuals received pre-paid card payments of $25 up to $250 for firearms - with a bonus iPad for certain handguns or assault rifles, at the no-questions-asked event, co-sponsored by state and county attorney generals and the NYPD. According to a study published by JAMA Network Open on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, the U.S. gun death rate in 2021 hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

U.S. gun death rates hit highest levels in decades, study shows

The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

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Covid-19 Pandemic and the Coronavirus

A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

U.S. renews push for COVID boosters as data show they protect

Americans who have gotten the updated COVID boosters appear better protected against symptomatic infection than those who haven’t — at least for now.

FILE - Ryan Dutton, an EMT from Rescue Inc., prepares shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccine during a vaccine clinic held by Rescue Inc. at Leland & Gray Middle and High School, in Townshend, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The updated COVID-19 boosters aren't an exact match to the newest omicron mutants but Pfizer says lab tests suggest its shot may offer some cross-protection. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, File)

Pfizer booster spurs immune response to new Omicron subvariants

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a session on the Global Methane Pledge at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

U.S. top envoy John Kerry tests positive for COVID-19 as U.N. climate talks drag

FILE - Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement that Walensky tested positive Friday, Oct. 21, and has mild symptoms. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising in infants under 6 months, CDC director says

The anti-viral drug Paxlovid is displayed in New York.

For some COVID patients, ‘Paxlovid rebound’ has nothing to do with Paxlovid

WHO reports 90% drop in world COVID-19 deaths since February

Pfizer study says updated COVID boosters rev up antibody protection

Alcohol death toll is growing, CDC reports say

Are the unvaccinated still a danger to the rest of us?

Covid-19 Vaccines

A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference

With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot.

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