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Why the CDC changed its advice on masks

NYT May 15, 2021 9:15 AM ET Introducing the new recommendations on Thursday, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the C.D.C. director, cited two recent scientific findings as significant factors: Few vaccinated people become infected with the virus, and transmission seems rarer still; and the vaccines appear to be effective against all known variants of the coronavirus. One of the lingering concerns among scientists had been that even a vaccinated person might carry the virus perhaps briefly, without symptoms and spread it to others. But C.D.C. research, including the new study, has consistently found few infections among those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

A divisive disease

ILLUSTRATION: ADAM SIMPSON/HEART AGENCY Angela Rasmussen is as outspoken a scientist as you are likely to find. And this year she spoke out a lot. One of many researchers who became celebrities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the virologist at Georgetown University was quoted in hundreds of articles, appeared as an expert on TV and radio, and took to Twitter to put news about mutations or reinfections into context and to call radiologist and top U.S. government adviser Scott Atlas a “gaslighting motherf -er.” But Rasmussen s messages did not resonate with everyone even in her own family. Split along political fault lines in the Trump era, some of her relatives no longer speak to one another, she says. When one of her aunts ended up in intensive care with COVID-19 in the summer, Rasmussen only found out because a cousin texted her, worried that others in the aunt s household did not feel the need to quarantine and get tested. “Guess what: They all had COVID,” Rasmussen says. �

Covid 19 coronavirus: This new vaccine could bring hope to the unvaccinated world

Covid 19 coronavirus: This new vaccine could bring hope to the unvaccinated world 5 May, 2021 08:46 PM 10 minutes to read Curevac s headquarters in Tuebingen, Germany. Photo / AP New York Times By: Carl Zimmer The German company CureVac hopes its RNA vaccine will rival those made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. It could be ready next month. In early 2020, dozens of scientific teams scrambled to make a vaccine for Covid-19. Some chose tried-and-true techniques, such as making vaccines from killed viruses. But a handful of companies bet on a riskier method, one that had never produced a licensed vaccine: deploying a genetic molecule called RNA.

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