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Israel removes many Covid restrictions, ends green pass system now that most adults are vaccinated

Tue, 2021-06-01 14:39 — mike kraft

With new coronavirus cases dropping to below 20 a day, Israel on Tuesday retired its Green Pass system and will now allow equal access to restaurants, sports events, cultural activities and the like to vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens.

Restrictions on the sizes of gatherings have also been lifted.

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OPINION: The need to address "needle fear" in effort to vaccinate more people

Sat, 2021-05-22 18:32 — mike kraft

No one likes needles. Of all the barriers to Covid-19 vaccination, fear of needles may seem trivial to overcome. But millions of American adults, not to mention children, still need to be injected to keep themselves and their communities safe. And it’s likely some of them aren’t doing so in part because they fear or just don’t like needles.

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New Covid cases in Europe drop sharply over the past month, though a top WHO official cautions ‘this progress is fragile.’

Fri, 2021-05-21 00:31 — mike kraft

Europe has recorded a 60 percent drop in new coronavirus infections over the past month, the World Health Organization said Thursday, encouraging news that comes as the continent plans to reopen its borders. Still, “this progress is fragile,” a top agency official cautioned.

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Analysis: The right decision wrongly handled’: Inside the Biden administration’s abrupt reversal on masks

Sun, 2021-05-16 17:08 — mike kraft

‘The right decision wrongly handled’: Inside the Biden administration’s abrupt reversal on masks The huge policy turnaround caught senior White House and administration officials, medical experts, elected officials and business leaders completely off guard. Lena H. Sun, Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Annie Linskey Washington Post

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Masks still should be used in U.S. Schools--CDC

Sun, 2021-05-16 16:14 — mike kraft

Schools in the U.S. should continue to use masks, C.D.C. advises.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday clarified coronavirus advice for U.S. schools, recommending the continued, universal use of masks and physical distancing, after the agency’s sudden announcement that vaccinated Americans could forego masks indoors.

All schools teaching students from kindergarten through grade 12 should continue to implement proper mask-wearing through the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the C.D.C. said. The agency also kept in place its suggestions to observe physical distancing and to test for coronavirus infections.

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