All adults would become eligible for a second COVID-19 booster shot under a plan being worked on by the Biden administration, according to a new report.
All adults would become eligible for a second COVID-19 booster shot under a plan being worked on by the Biden administration, the Washington Post reported late Monday.
But there is growing concern about the spread of more contagious omicron subvariants, such as BA.4 and BA.5, and a sharp increase in COVID hospitalizations, which have risen 14% over the past two weeks, according to a New York Times tracker. Daily COVID cases are up 5% over that span, to 107,533 a day, according to the Times. Deaths, however, are down 7%, to about 322 a day.
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