COVID-19 vaccines: What does 95% efficacy actually mean? By Anna Nowogrodzki February 11, 2021 "What the 95% actually means is that vaccinated people had a 95% lower risk of getting COVID-19 compared with the control group participants, who weren't vaccinated. In other words, vaccinated...
COVID-19 vaccines: What does 95% efficacy actually mean? By Anna Nowogrodzki February 11, 2021 "What the 95% actually means is that vaccinated people had a 95% lower risk of getting COVID-19 compared with the control group participants, who weren't vaccinated. In other words, vaccinated...
Updated criteria to guide COVID-19 restrictions will be announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later this week or early next week, according to a CDC scientist involved in the process.
Connecticut Governor Lamont will also be lifting the majority of the remaining COVID-19-related restrictions, including capacity limits and social distancing rules for businesses such as bars, nightclubs, and large venues. Governor Lamont also ended the indoor mask mandate for...
Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider joined CBSN to discuss the CDC's new guidelines which say face masks can help protect wearers from getting infected with the coronavirus. She also talks about new restrictions some cities are imposing on restaurants, bars and gyms to try to stop the surge in COVID-19...
As a growing number of governors move to relax public health restrictions with the recent dip in COVID-19 cases, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that lifting such measures could result in a new wave of cases and deaths. In the agency's Morbidity and ...
The new guidance also says nothing about going to restaurants or other places, even though governors are lifting restrictions on businesses, said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University who formerly was Baltimore’s health commissioner. Wen has...
Restrictions are easing as both companies and policymakers increasingly depict the virus as something the nation will have to learn to live with, even as it continues to kill hundreds of Americans per day. Following the mask ruling, Delta Air Lines initially said that COVID-19 had transitioned ...
Passengers must be examined for COVID-19 symptoms before and after the trip, and at least 75% must be tested at the end. Restrictions on board will include face masks and social distancing. The CDC will allow guided shore excursions — no wandering about on their own — if tour op...
President Joe Biden sharply criticized states lifting Covid restrictions Wednesday, saying he thought it was a “big mistake” and that “these masks” make a difference. “We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way in which we’re...