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A man in Chicago receives a COVID-19 booster shot at a McDonald's Dec. 21, a day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the omicron variant had become the dominant version of the coronavirus in the United States. (CNS/Reuters/Jim Vondruska)