Grocery-store workers and shoppers trying to get a glimpse of Vice President Kamala Harris as she visited the pharmacy of a Giant Foods grocery store to promote the Biden administration s Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 vaccination on February 25. Drew Angerer/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The CDC says you can hug your grandkids once you re fully vaccinated, even if they aren t.
(Which is important, since children can t be vaccinated yet.)
The new guidance gives more latitude to the vaccinated and more reason to get the vaccine.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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A sign encouraging the use of face coverings stands outside the History Colorado Center as traffic passes southbound on Broadway Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Denver.
On a sunny Tuesday, a man sits in his SUV in the parking lot of a Highlands Ranch big box store. Matt Dority carefully looks at the faces passing him by.
He explained what he was watching for.
“Are they wearing a mask? Do they have a mask, but it s not fitted correctly? Or did they just have no mask on at all?”
Dority is a volunteer, tracking mask use for Tri-County, the health department for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. The agency is the only one in Colorado to compile mask data throughout the pandemic. Dority, himself in a yellow mask of the surgical variety, keeps track via an app on his phone. He runs through what he’s seen so far.
Customers threaten to call immigration authorities on owners of Mexican restaurant in Houston after they insist they will keep mask rule despite Gov. Abbott vowing to open Texas 100 percent
Owners of Picos restaurant said they have been bombarded with abusive messages after announcing customers must continue to wear masks
Picos co-owner Monica Richards said people sent horrific messages and threatened to report staff members to the ICE For people to be negative toward us for trying to remain safe, so that this doesn t continue to happen, just makes zero sense to us, she said
News of the threats sparked outrage from the community and state Democrats
More than 73 percent of Americans who die of COVID-19 are overweight or obese, CDC data reveal
CDC data on nearly 150,000 Americans who tested positive for COVID-19 shows that 46% of people who died after hospitalization were obese
More than 27% of people who died of coronavirus in the US were overweight
As BMI went up, so did risks of being hospitalized, needing ICU treatment for COVID-19, needing to be on a ventilator or dying of the infection