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The agency doesn't tell people to stop using cloth coverings, but its updated guidelines do put more oomph behind well-fitted N95 and KN95 masks.

Here's why the CDC changed its guidelines.

Omicron is not infecting people at the rate officials thought.

This change reflects when people are most likely to transmit the coronavirus, the agency says.

Any COVID vaccine is better than no vaccine at all, the health agency made clear.

Health authorities say there’s no cause for alarm.

Even CDC experts agreed that this new method using genomics works.

Many people in the United States are now eligible for a booster vaccine.

Getting fully vaccinated is the safest thing you can do.

The disease has now killed more Americans than the 1918 influenza pandemic—and experts predict another 100,000 will die from COVID by the end of the year.