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The report  paints a picture of an on-again, off-again disorder for adults, with symptoms fluctuating depending on life circumstances.

Federal health officials have estimated that about 3 percent of U.S. adults are immunocompromised.

The action by the Food and Drug Administration means additional shots could be available for the immunocompromised as soon as this weekend.

The state is averaging nearly 2,700 new covid-19 infections a day in the past week — spiking 54 percent in the past seven days — and a hospital’s parking garage is being converted to treat additional ICU patients.

The trend reflects broad public confusion about the protection offered by the vaccines at a critical time in the nation’s pandemic response, with the hyper-transmissible delta variant causing infections and hospitalizations to soar.

The surge fueled by the delta variant leaves hospital executives asking, “What else can I be doing?”

But life in highly vaccinated states is still safer, with one third the new cases and one fourth the hospitalizations of low vaccinated states.

Just 23 percent of pregnant women have received at least one shot of vaccine. The CDC advice applies to all three vaccines, though the one-shot Johnson & Johnson version has not been studied as much as the versions produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

Thomas Hodge III strongly backed the mass vaccination effort but cautioned against relying too heavily on vaccines and urged people not to abandon precautions such as masking and social distancing.

Thomas Hodge III strongly backed the mass vaccination effort but cautioned against relying too heavily on vaccines and urged people not to abandon precautions such as masking and social distancing.