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  1. Western University is mandating at least one COVID-19 booster dose, and masks to be worn in classrooms when staff and students return to campus next month
  2. Canada has so far purchased a total of 12 million doses of Moderna’s bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant
  3. Bivalent COVID-19 vaccines: Here’s what we know so far, and how these vaccines could factor into a fall wave

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