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This is one-half of a point/counterpoint pair of articles regarding the need for infection-control precautions by people who've received their full COVID-19 vaccinations. Here, David Aronoff, MD, argues that now is not the time to lower our guard, vaccinated or not. Click here for the viewpoint from Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, who says relaxing some restrictions after vaccination will be OK. The COVID-19 pandemic has now raged on for more than a year. In the U.S., we have documented more than 24.5 million cases and 400,000 COVID-19-related deaths, with between 3,000 and 4,000 people dying each da...

email article The Trump administration announced it will stop withholding portions of its COVID-19 vaccine supply for second doses, and instead free up all available doses so that states can vaccinate people ages 65 and over, as well as adults under 65 with comorbid conditions. "We're telling states today that they should open vaccinations to all of their most vulnerable people. That is the most effective way to save lives now," said Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar during a Tuesday press conference. Azar pointedly blamed the states' restrictive eligibil...

email article Even without studies to guide them, pregnant physicians are moving ahead with COVID-19 vaccination because they say the benefits outweigh any potential risks. Hilary Shapiro, MD, chief cardiology fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, tweeted that she got her shot at 30 weeks after "lots of reading and discussing with my doctors." Denise Vilchez Cardenal, MD, of Ob Hospitalist Group and St. Lucie Medical Center in Florida, got hers at 31 weeks. She said she had no fever or muscle pain and her only symptom was "a little bit of pain at the injection site a few h...

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