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In the News highlights media coverage featuring the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The Atlantic
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Should Teen Boys Get Boosted?

Third shots for adolescent boys and young men were already a hard sell. Then came Omicron.
 

The Washington Post
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Amid omicron surge, contact tracing is more complicated, officials say

The rapid increase of coronavirus cases in the Washington region has made the painstaking task of contact tracing more difficult, moving public health officials to prioritize whom to inform about potential exposure in a triage-like effort to keep the highly transmissible omicron variant from spreading even faster and further.
 

The 19th
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What older people and caregivers need to know about omicron

While vaccines and boosters have allowed many people to move about more freely, seniors and the people who care for them have had to remain vigilant. What should seniors and caregivers, both disproportionately women, do differently? Do people need to scale back on activities like going grocery shopping or seeing friends?