WHO says COVID boosters needed, reversing previous call GENEVA (AP) — An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity. AP NEWS

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Pandemic restrictions lift POLITICO

New York City’s indoor vaccine mandate is gone, as of today. Restaurants, bars, entertainment venues and gyms will no longer be required to check for proof of Covid-19 vaccination from customers. Nor will kids be required to wear masks to school, after Mayor Eric Adams moved to lift most of the city’s remaining pandemic restrictions. ...

Is Covid Over? No, But Global Health Funders Are Moving On People in poorer countries are still waiting for vaccines, but the leaders of global health organizations have a new priority: preparing for the next pandemic. POLITICO

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Children who have lost caregivers to Covid may be flying under the radar, experts say “If a child has lost a parent, someone needs to show up at that doorstep right away — and I mean right away,” one professor of pediatrics said. NBC News

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White House: Congress must act soon to replenish COVID funds WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will soon begin to run out of money to bolster COVID-19 testing supplies and to guarantee that uninsured Americans keep getting free treatment for the virus unless Congress swiftly approves more funding, the White House warned. AP NEWS

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