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  Covid hospitalization hot spots across the U.S., in five charts

  NBC News - Joe Murphy

  Track which states are the hardest hit and where the hospitalization trends point. This article will be updated daily. Covid-19 hospitalizations are increasing again after a surge in December and January. Track hospitalizations in states with this NBC News analysis of U.S. Department of Health and …

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  Deadline passes and 1 in 10 Army National Guard soldiers still unvaccinated for Covid. Will they be expelled?

  NBC News - Courtney Kube

  The deadline for all Army National Guard soldiers to be vaccinated for Covid passed at midnight, with about a tenth of the 330,000 soldiers still unvaccinated and subject to financial penalties or potential future expulsion. Defense officials said earlier this week, however, that amid the Guard's …

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  Pastor and family stole $8M from taxpayers in Covid scam, feds say. Why haven’t they been charged?

  NBC News - Laura Strickler

  Federal agents in Florida had been seeking to question Evan Edwards, a pastor, and his family for days when their Mercedes SUV was spotted speeding on I-75 north of Gainesville. The Edwardses were Christian missionaries from Canada who lived in Turkey for many years and moved to Florida in 2019. On …

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  FDA recommends including omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in fall Covid boosters

  NBC News - Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

  The FDA is asking vaccine makers to include the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants in the next round of boosters to better target the highly contagious strains. The next round of Covid booster shots should be modified to target the extremely contagious omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, the Food and Drug …

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  Tiger at Ohio zoo dies after contracting Covid

  NBC News - Chantal Da Silva

  A tiger at an Ohio zoo has died after developing pneumonia caused by Covid-19, the zoo announced Wednesday. Jupiter, a 14-year-old old Amur tiger, died Sunday, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said in a Facebook post. According to the zoo, Jupiter had been on long-term treatment for chronic underlying …

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  In California, vaccines closed gap in Covid-related deaths for Latinos

  NBC News - Zachary Schermele

  A new data analysis from the Public Policy Institute of California shows that the major racial and ethnic disparities in Covid-related deaths experienced by Latinos in California at the height of the pandemic have significantly narrowed. In January 2021, the monthly death rate for Latinos over 18 in …