White House urges warning on COVID variants, pushes boosters

FILES - Dr.  Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tests during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  The Biden administration is calling on many Americans to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible, and saying they should consider wearing masks indoors as two new highly-transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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