Colorado governor signs executive order making all adults eligible for COVID booster shot
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Governor Jared Polis has signed an executive order declaring Colorado a high-risk COVID state and making every Coloradan who is 18 or older eligible for a booster shot. The move defies guidance by the FDA and CDC, which last month authorized that only seniors and other higher-risk adults were eligible for booster shots.
COVID cases are increasing again in Colorado and many parts of the U.S., raising fears of another difficult winter.
At least 35 states have seen daily COVID cases trend upward over the past two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.