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Fauci says new guidance might come soon for people who have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19 CNN 2/9/2021 By Jacqueline Howard, Nick Neville and Christina Maxouris, CNN © David Sokol/Wicked Local/USA Today Network A COVID technician with Cataldo Ambulance tests patients during free COVID testing in Danvers on Jan. 6. 4142867001p Dan Covidtesting5ds As of now, even if you have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19, the advice from health officials is to keep wearing your mask, keep social distancing and keep away from get-togethers. But Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday there ...

Dr. Fauci said there is no CDC guidance on what to do when groups of people who have received both vaccine doses want to get together.

Residents and employees of long-term care facilities face especially high risk for coronavirus transmission, and nursing homes have seen several COVID-19 outbreaks.Yet a CDC study shows alarmingly low vaccination rates among facility staff.

City and state leaders express frustration over COVID-19 vaccine ‘inequity’ City and state leaders express frustration over COVID-19 vaccine ‘inequity’ Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters Saturday that 43% of COVID-19 vaccine recipients so far in Houston have been white. In comparison, 21% have been Hispanic, 18% black, and 15% Asian. HOUSTON - Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner held a press conference Saturday pushing for COVID-19 vaccine distribution equity. "We need to be a lot more intentional and directional," said Mayor Turner.  "Equity has to be built in to a...

"In Maine, we are not sitting around waiting for those doses to just get used on the timetable that retail pharmacies tell us," Dr. Nirav Shah of Maine said.