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An Updated Covid Guide For four different types of households.


17 May 2021

The new C.D.C. guidance has excited many Americans and scared many others. Some people feel both emotions, understandably enough: They’re excited to start returning to more normal daily life and still scared by a pandemic that is killing about 600 Americans a day. This morning, I want to think through the real-world implications of the new guidelines for individual families. Those guidelines mostly allow people to behave more freely. But they will also lead some to take new precautions. I am going to break down households into four categories, depending on vaccination status:


Breakthrough Infections Rare Among Vaccinated Americans


19 Apr 2021

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided its first public data about breakthrough Covid-19 cases to CNN last week and it shows that vaccines have been highly effective at reducing infections, hospitalizations and death. As of last week, around 78.5 million Americans had been fully vaccinated and the CDC's data states that 5,800 cases of Covid-19 occurred among fully vaccinated people, 396 of whom required hospitalization with 74 deaths recorded.


U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases


13 Apr 2021

The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and urge states to do so as well while they examine the safety issues.


Likely Legal, ‘Vaccine Passports’ Emerge as the Next Coronavirus Divide


07 Apr 2021

Businesses and universities want fast, easy ways to see if students and customers are vaccinated, but conservative politicians have turned “vaccine passports” into a cultural flash point.


AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis


23 Mar 2021

79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalization Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age, with 80% efficacy in participants aged 65 years and over Favorable reactogenicity and overall safety profile




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How the Novavax Vaccine Works


03 Feb 2021

The Maryland-based company Novavax has developed a protein-based coronavirus vaccine called NVX-CoV2373. The vaccine produced strikingly high levels of antibodies in early clinical trials.




Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic


19 Jan 2021

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19), is a transmissible virus that infects the upper and lower respiratory tract, leading to a high viral titer in saliva and respiratory secretions.




COVID-19 as the Leading Cause of Death in the United States


12 Jan 2021

The current exponential increase in coronavirus dis- ease 2019 (COVID-19) is reaching a calamitous scale in the United States, potentially overwhelming the health care system and causing substantial loss of life.




Feds Authorize $22 Billion to Boost Vaccine Rollout


11 Jan 2021

The CDC will send $3 billion to the states to boost a lagging national COVID-19 vaccination program.




COVID-19 Immunity Could Last Longer Than 8 Months, Study Says


08 Jan 2021

Certain antibodies and memory cells likely last more than 8 months after someone has contracted the coronavirus, especially if they have a strong immune response to COVID-19, according to a new study published Wednesday in Science.




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