Yale University is going to require students who are eligible to get a COVID-19 booster before returning to campus for the spring semester.
Federal health officials said Monday that the omicron COVID-19 variant has raced ahead of other variants and accounted for 73 percent of new infections last week.
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The promising news, Yale said, is that boosters of currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines not only bolster waning immunity to the delta variant but also appear to provide protection from becoming ill with the omicron variant and university leaders have decided that all students who are eligible will be required to receive boosters before returning to campus for the spring semester.
They also said all faculty and staff are expected to receive boosters as soon as they become eligible.