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Scientific advisers decide vaccine’s benefits outweigh risk after finding 15 cases of blood clots, 3 deaths out of nearly 8 million people given the shot

Global daily cases increase by nine percent to 788,000, mainly due to massive spike in India — though pandemic slowed down in all other world regions outside Asia

Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered state officials to halt issuing new fracking permits by then as he looks to phase out all oil extraction by 2045. (Image credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots.