Where won t you have to wear a mask after the vaccine and in what cases?
As new information becomes available, the CDC updated guidance for fully vaccinated people, including changes for mask-wearing and social distancing.
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Maine Senator Susan Collins told CDC Director Rochelle Walensky that she “
Always considered the CDC to be the gold standard, but after seeing the agencies response to the pandemic,
she doesn t anymore.
The Senator s criticism stems from what she sees as the confusion created by the delays in the agency
adjusting their public health guidance. Part of the Senator’s argument is based on how the agency has released information for fully vaccinated individuals.
CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky announced Thursday that the agency is updating its mask-wearing guidance
The new guidance allows fully vaccinated people to go maskless indoors in almost all settings
Crowded settings like planes, buses and prisons are an exception, and some places like hospitals will still have and enforce their own infection control measures
CDC also says that fully vaccinated people can take off their masks anywhere outdoors - including in crowds
In a seemingly prescient moment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed her mask in public for the first time in months on Thursday during her weekly Capitol Hill press conference
White House defended the administration s medical experts as a north star
Jen Psaki went on defense after Republican senators tore into CDD Director Rochelle Walensky during a hearing Tuesday on the pandemic response How we we ve approached things is that we believe that health and medical experts should be our North Star, Psaki said
She said she understood people were tired of masks but rules must be followed
Lawmakers claimed the CDC has provided inconsistent and confusing guidance
They fumed at the agency head for the the failure to relax mask and other guidance despite mass vaccinations and dropping infections
to this country’s national security.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies at a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. (Image via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) White nationalism appeared to dominate Capitol Hill on Wednesday as senators focused on the Justice Department’s budget while House lawmakers held their latest hearing on January’s storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“In 2020 alone, white nationalists and likeminded extremists conducted 66% of terrorist plots and attacks in the United States,” said Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, at a hearing featuring witness testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Bombshell: CDC HUGELY exaggerated risks of outdoor transmission of COV
The media repeated the figure and it became the standard.
The Times writes:
That benchmark “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” as Dr. Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews, said. In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent, multiple epidemiologists told me. The rare outdoor transmission that has happened almost all seems to have involved crowded places or close conversation.
Saying that less than 10 percent of Covid transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year. (The actual worldwide number is around 150.) It’s both true and deceiving.