9-1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that teenagers and adults get updated booster shots from Pfizer or Moderna. The shots — also known as bivalent vaccines —are designed to target both the original coronavirus strain and the currently circulating omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The 50-mcg booster dose of Moderna mRNA-1273.222 includes 25 mcg encoding for the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 25 mcg of mRNA encoding for the spike protein of the BA.4/BA.5 omicron variant. The 30-mcg booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent booster includes 15 mcg of the original strain and 15 mcg of the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants.

9-6 Received bivalent booster

9-9 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency to boost polio vaccination rates amid more evidence the virus is spreading in communities. Poliovirus has now been detected in sewage samples from Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and Nassau Counties.

9-10 Recent COVID-19 tests reveal that another potentially contagious subvariant, BA.2.75, nicknamed “centaurus,” has been in Florida since at least mid-August. Plus, the BA.4.6 subvariant continues to gain ground across the southeastern United States.

9-20 The incidence of long COVID appears to be ticking upward. The high reinfection rate could be one reason. As many as 21 percent of Americans who caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer ended up suffering from long COVID starting four weeks after infection, according to a new study from City University of New York. recent rates of death and hospitalization from COVID in the U.S. are three percent and 0.3 percent.

9-22 A year-long study, published in Nature Medicine found that people who had COVID-19 are at higher risk for a host of brain injuries a year later compared with people who were never infected by the coronavirus. The study assessed brain health across 44 different disorders using medical records without patient identifiers from millions of U.S. veteran and found that bbrain and other neurological disorders occurred in 7% more of those who had been infected with COVID compared with a similar group of veterans who had never been infected. That translates into roughly 6.6 million Americans who had brain impairments linked with their COVID infections.