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The latest COVID boosters are in for the fall. Here's what that means for you

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Robert Wachter about the latest round of FDA-approved COVID-19 boosters and how people should think about the coronavirus and its risk.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have backed a broad rollout of new COVID-19 boosters.

President Biden recently had an experience that many of us have gone through lately — a family member tested positive for COVID-19. It was first lady Jill Biden.

And like many of us, Biden faced the question: Should I cancel my own plans and isolate?

Unlike the rest of us, he had a press secretary on hand to answer. This is the exchange between a reporter and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after the first lady's diagnosis.

If President Biden does test positive for COVID in the coming days, we can assume he's not going

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