Injections of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine came to a sudden halt this week in the United States after a small number of rare blood clots emerged, though it is unclear if the shot was responsible.
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The C.D.C. director says Michigan needs to shut down, not get extra vaccine, to slow its virus outbreak.
The remarks rebuff efforts by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to secure an extra supply of vaccine doses as Michigan is seeing a worst-in-the-nation surge of coronavirus infections.
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This week, the C.D.C. acknowledged what scientists have been saying for months: The risk of catching the coronavirus from surfaces is low.
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The B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in Britain, is now the source of most new coronavirus infections in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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The worrisome development comes as officials and scientists across the country warn of a fourth possible surge of the coronavirus.
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Researchers pushed back after the C.D.C. director asserted that vaccinated people “do not carry the virus.”
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“I am asking you to just hold on a little longer, to get vaccinated when you can, so that all of those people that we all love will still be here when this pandemic ends,” the C.D.C. director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
Fully vaccinated people in the U.S. now have more guidance from the C.D.C. on activities. That doesn’t yet include travel.
To the frustration of the airline industry, nonessential travel is still discouraged for all Americans.
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“Things are tenuous,” says Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director. “Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”