The White House filled in more details of its newly announced plans to blunt the impact of COVID-19 in the U.S. The emergency rule ordering large employers to require COVID-19 vaccines or weekly tests for their workers could be ready “within weeks.'
vaccinations for plane and train travel. She was disappointed that children 12 and older weren’t required to be vaccinated, too.
The study, which included more than 600,000 COVID-19 cases, analyzed breakthrough infections -- cases where people got sick despite being fully vaccinated -- in 13 jurisdictions in the U.S. between April 4 and July 17, 2021. Even after Delta swept the U.S., fully vaccinated people were 5 times less likely to get a COVID-19 infection and more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from one.
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