The new boosters target the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the COVID-19 virus which are currently the most prevalent in the United States. Two versions of bivalent boosters are available: The Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 years and older and Moderna for people ages 18 years and older.
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Students are back at Wichita colleges, but the COVID-19 picture remains murky
It’s Olivia Compton’s sixth spring semester in college, her third in the COVID-19 era and her first at Friends University. At this point, she has an air of having seen it all, even as the omicron variant shatters what looked like the light at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic during the fall […]
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Kansas is challenging the federal vaccine mandates. Spirit and Textron are moving forward with them.
Editor’s note: We updated this story on Nov. 29 to clarify that Spirit and Textron are following a mandate for employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated by Jan. 4. The story, including the headline and a subhead, were also revised to clarify that there are three federal mandates related to vaccine mandates. Also, the […]