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This week, the Food and Drug Administration has approved updated mRNA vaccines for covid-19. The vaccines are intended to increase people’s protection from the latest circulating variants of the coronavirus, which has started to cause a recent uptick in illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon…