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CDC's Shift Clashes With Epidemiologists' Expectations

Most thought masks would be needed indoors for another year or so

(Newser) - Mike Allen of Axios calls it "liberation day." Russell Berman of the Atlantic writes about the CDC "liberating the people from their face coverings." The references, of course, are to the CDC's decision on Thursday to declare that the fully vaccinated can skip wearing masks...

Yankees Hit With COVID Outbreak Among Fully Vaccinated

8 so far have the virus despite vaccination status

(Newser) - Eight members of the New York Yankees organization have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. Three coaches, four members of the traveling staff, and one player—Gleyber Torres—are affected, CBS News reports. Of those, seven are asymptomatic, CNN reports, and the one coach who did experience symptoms...

After UK Vaccination Success, the 'End Is in Sight'

Many restrictions will be lifted Monday

(Newser) - When London’s Science Museum reopens next week, it will have some new artifacts: empty vaccine vials, testing kits and other items collected during the pandemic, to be featured in a new COVID-19 exhibition. Britain isn’t quite ready to consign the coronavirus to a museum—the outbreak is far...

CDC Makes a Big Shift on Mask Guidelines

Fully vaccinated can go without them indoors or outdoors, excepts in travel hubs, hospitals, etc.

(Newser) - A big move by the CDC: The agency on Thursday eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places. The new guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons, and homeless shelters, but...

More Blood Clot Cases Possibly Linked to J&amp;J Vaccine
More Bad News for J&J Vax 
May 13, 2021 2:29 AM CDT

More Bad News for J&J Vax

CDC is now aware of 28 cases, three of which were fatal

(Newser) - The number of people who've experienced a rare blood clotting disorder after receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine is now up to 28, the CDC announced Wednesday. Previously, 15 cases had been confirmed, all of them in women. The new cases include six men, the New York Times...

Ohio Adults Who Get Vaccinated Could Win $1M

Ohio Vax-a-Million is a series of five $1M lotteries for those who are vaccinated

(Newser) - About 36% of Ohio's population is fully vaccinated for COVID-19, and authorities want that percentage to be higher—so they're launching the Ohio Vax-a-Million, a series of five $1 million lotteries open only to adults who've received at least one vaccine dose. As for vaccinated teens in...

Newsom: California to Update Mask Mandates

Though he thinks, for now, indoor mandates will still apply

(Newser) - California is fully reopening its economy June 15, and it will be making some changes to its mask mandates, too. "We will be updating our mask guidelines, outdoor masking, if we reach that threshold where we hope to be ... in fact, it will be eliminated, those mandates," Newsom...

In Rural India, Answers to a 'Burning Question'

Namely, how will poorer areas handle a surge in COVID cases?

(Newser) - India's crematoriums are overwhelmed—and as Reuters reports, many of the ashes are going uncollected by families. That's due in part to the fear that they could become infected with COVID by visiting the site. So volunteers are doing so for them, at least in the case of...

7 Things to Know About a Major New COVID Report

It was commissioned by the WHO

(Newser) - It's definitely not a reassuring conclusion: An independent panel commissioned by the World Health Organization to review the pandemic and glean learnings from it has determined the COVID pandemic was a preventable disaster. The panel was chaired by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (who told reporters "the...

SC Governor Makes Big Move on Face Masks

Henry McMaster bars mandates for face masks: 'It goes against all logic'

(Newser) - Schools and local governments in South Carolina are banned from instituting mask mandates under an executive order signed Tuesday by Gov. Henry McMaster. "With every adult in our state having the opportunity to receive a [COVID-19] vaccine, it goes against all logic to continue to force our children ... to...

Attending Party Maskless Costs 3 Students, Big Time

Another student sent a photo of them to UMass Amherst

(Newser) - Three UMass Amherst students were suspended, then kicked out entirely—costing them $16,000 each in tuition—after they attended an off-campus party on a March weekend without wearing masks. A picture of the three freshmen, all females, posing outside with no facial coverings was posted on social media, and...

CDC&#39;s Stat on Outdoor COVID Is &#39;Misleading&#39;


CDC's Stat on
Outdoor COVID
Is Way Off
analysis
May 11, 2021 1:22 PM CDT

CDC's Stat on Outdoor COVID Is Way Off

David Leonhardt of the New York Times digs in, finds estimate of 10% transmission way too high

(Newser) - The CDC last month announced that "less than 10%" of COVID transmission was occurring outdoors. At the New York Times , David Leonhardt digs into the research and concludes that the agency is pushing a "misleading" stat. Based on the epidemiologists he's interviewed and the studies he's...

Lyft, Uber Offer Free Rides for Shots

Biden administration cuts deal to run through July 4

(Newser) - As part of the push to administer at least one coronavirus vaccination shot to 70% of US adults by Independence Day, President Biden's administration has a plan to handle the transportation for those needing a ride. Uber and Lyft will handle the round trip for vaccine recipients through July...

Health Worker Accidentally Gets a 'Massive' Vaccine Dose

Italian woman is doing fine regardless

(Newser) - A 23-year-old Italian woman is doing well after she accidentally received six doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday. A health worker at Noa hospital in Tuscany had filled a syringe with an entire vial of the vaccine, which is to be split into six doses. It was only...

Hundreds of Bodies Still Wait in Refrigerated Trucks

New York City is waiting to decide with families where to take remains of COVID-19 victims

(Newser) - The bodies of hundreds of COVID-19 victims remain in parked refrigerated trucks in New York City awaiting burial—a temporary move made more than a year ago when morgues were overwhelmed by the pandemic. Officials from the medical examiner's office said last week that they're giving the victims'...

COVID Variants Are On the Rise in Florida

They started surging after spring break

(Newser) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all local COVID-19 restrictions by executive order Monday—the same day that state health officials released worrying figures on the spread of coronavirus variants. The county-by-county statistics, released as part of a legal settlement with the Orlando Sentinel , show that more than 11,000 cases...

FDA Approves 'Significant Step' Toward Ending Pandemic

Pfizer vaccine approved for 12 to 15-year-olds

(Newser) - The first coronavirus vaccine approved for adults and older teens in the US is now the first to gain approval for adolescents as well. The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech has been expanded to include people 12 to 15 years old....

'Apocalyptic' Scenes in India: Bloated Bodies in the Ganges

They are believed to be COVID-19 victims

(Newser) - India's difficulty dealing with all of its bodies may have led to this: dozens of "bloated" and "partially burnt" bodies of suspected COVID victims washed up on the banks of the Ganges. The BBC reports it confirmed the presence of the bodies near the Bihar-Uttar Pradesh border,...

Vaccine Turnout Was Low, Until the Free Beer Coupons

It's working in the Buffalo area, anyway

(Newser) - Buffalo's Erie County had been struggling to attract people to its first-dose COVID vaccine clinics of late—a grand total of one person showed up to one of them, reports Sandra Tan of the Buffalo News . This weekend, though, health officials appear to have struck upon the secret formula:...

Fauci: It May Soon Be Time to Ditch Mask Mandates

Though, he says, more people need to be vaccinated

(Newser) - Are the US' days of requiring masks to be worn indoors coming to a close? Maybe, but there are a few caveats. The first one? Enough people need to be vaccinated. It was the former head of the FDA, Scott Gottlieb, who first said (on CBS' Face the Nation on...

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