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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. President Biden got his first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine in December, and his second dose in January, so he s now fully vaccinated. (It takes about 2 weeks after the final dose for protection to fully kick in, the CDC says.) Joshua Roberts/Getty Images, Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Hilary Brueck/Insider
The CDC still says do not travel.
But President Biden, who has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is darting around the country.
Leading independent health experts say he should be allowed to do so, as should others who ve completed vaccination.
Maskless spring breakers are setting the US up for surge in COVID-19 cases: CDC director warns UK variant that now accounts for nearly 30% of samples tested for mutations is spreading rapidly across the nation as daily average infections rise above 55K
Seven-day rolling average number of cases rose to 55,423 on Monday with 56,649 reported yesterday
Although Monday saw just 740 deaths, the seven-day rolling average of fatalities is back above 1,500
Over the past five days, a pandemic-record 6.4 million people took flights, according to TSA data
That surpasses flights in the five day period preceding Christmas, with a pandemic high of 1.3 million travelers on Friday
A new CDC report found that of 12.5 million people who received their first coronavirus vaccine dose, 8.6 percent of people are late getting their second dose and 3.4 percent have completely missed it.
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We ve been wearing masks for almost a year, and we re still not getting it right.
Designing better masks, and creating standards and labels for them could help.
So would imposing fines, as South Korea has done.
This article is one in a four-part series on the simple ways to fix the America s biggest COVID-19 mistakes. Click here to read more.
Over the course of the past year, we ve gone through at least four major cultural shifts when it comes to wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
First, we heard: don t wear a mask! Save them for frontline healthcare workers tending to sick patients.
Kassidi Kurill, a 39-year-old from Ogden, Utah, died on February 5
Her family, who are still awaiting results of her autopsy, believe her death may have been linked to the COVID-19 vaccine she received four days earlier
The family said the mother-of-one had no known health issues
But Dr Erik Christensen, chief medical examiner for the Utah Department of Health, said Kurill s death was only temporally related to the vaccine We don t have any evidence that there are connections between the vaccines and deaths at this point, Christensen said
He said an autopsy, which the family are still waiting on, can potentially reveal an undiagnosed condition that may have caused the death