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All Bay Area counties urge protection against winter respiratory viruses

Original post made on Dec 16, 2022

Health officials in all 11 counties in the greater Bay Area urged the region's residents Thursday to protect themselves from COVID-19, flu and other respiratory viruses during the winter holidays.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 16, 2022, 9:29 AM

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Posted by Forever Name
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 16, 2022 at 1:47 pm

Forever Name is a registered user.

@ article: "The currently available COVID booster vaccine also protects against two strains of the highly contagious omicron variant."

Can the author of this article and/or the County Health Director please clarify what "protects against the omicron variant" means? And provide actual data to support this statement? Thank you.


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