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Northeast Ohio's supply of the updated Moderna booster shot that protects against the new omicron variants has run out in some communities and is low in others after a reported inspection issue at a vaccine manufacturing plant in Indiana earlier this month.

This decision comes after the FDA granted full approval to Pfizer's vaccine earlier this week.

COVID-19 spread continues to increase in Cuyahoga County. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed the county's designation from moderate to an area of “substantial transmission". The designation means community spread is high and residents are advised to wear masks when indoors in public – even if they are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

Donna Skoda says the FDA's move to extend the expiration date for vaccines is nothing new.

For two weeks starting May 3, the clinics will be spread throughout the county.

Pfizer and Moderna are making vaccines now, but several other companies are working on others using different technology.

Cuyahoga County’s health board is expected to begin administering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 21, to emergency medical services (EMS) responders, as well as residents and staff of group homes, health officials said in a press conference Friday.

The power of family history can lead a person to do lot of things. For Howard Berkes, the family tradition of facing crises head-on led him to sign up for experimental testing of a COVID-19 vaccine.