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British Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged the public to "follow the rules" to protect the National Health Service, which he said was currently treating more than 32,000 people in hospitals across the UK.
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UK health secretary says it s unclear if being vaccinated reduces the risk of transmitting Covid-19
From CNN s Schams Elwazer
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks at a coronavirus press conference inside 10 Downing Street on January 11 in London. Alastair Grant/WPA Pool/Getty Images
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was still unclear the extent to which being vaccinated reduces one’s risk of transmitting coronavirus. We know that the vaccine reduces your chances of getting Covid and then of being hospitalized or dying from Covid, Hancock said. What we don’t yet know… is how much you might transmit Covid – even if you don’t suffer from the disease – after you’ve had the vaccine.
States increasingly dumping CDC recommendations in giving out coronavirus vaccines, analysis finds
From CNN’s Maggie Fox
A healthcare worker administers the COVID-19 vaccine to residents living in the Jackson Heights neighborhood at St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church on January 10 in Tampa, Florida. Octavio Jones/Getty Images
States are increasingly abandoning guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and taking their own approaches to giving people coronavirus vaccines, a new analysis finds.
“Overall, we find states are increasingly diverging from CDC guidance and from each other, suggesting that access to COVID-19 vaccines in these first months of the U.S. vaccine campaign may depend a great deal on where one lives,” the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care policy, said in a report issued Monday.
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