The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter.

The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination. It’s part of a shift to treat fall updates of the COVID-19 vaccine much like getting a yearly flu shot.

There’s still another step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off. A CDC advisory panel is set to issue recommendations Tuesday on who most needs the updated shots. Vaccinations could begin later this week, and both the COVID-19 and flu shot can be given at the same visit.

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        Chills throat and headache. My wife was positive last Thursday and just lost sense of smell. Out 5yo is still in the clear so far.

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          The smell and taste thing is so goddamn weird. Most of the people I know personally who’ve caught it lost one, the other, or both. Several of them are only now getting it back.

          And people wonder why I still mask up when going to stores and am champing at the bit for the new booster. I don’t want any of that crap.

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        Well, it’s not a + so I’m not pregnant! Yay! That would have been hard to explain to my wife (I’m male)

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          Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

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      Look into paxlovid if your symptoms get bad. It made my 2nd bout tolerable but I have asthma and shit lungs.