The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on May 13 advised that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks outdoors and can avoid wearing them indoors in most places, updated guidance the agency said will allow life to begin to return to normal. Reuters lays out some of recent scientific evidence on which the CDC and Director Rochelle Walensky based their updated guidelines, including vaccine efficacy against virus variants, increased availability and a reduction in cases.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on May 13 advised that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks outdoors and can avoid wearing them indoors in most places, updated guidance the agency said will allow life to begin to return to normal.

Advisors to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will meet on May 12 to discuss recommendations for the use of Pfizer and partner BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 12 to 15.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not found a link between heart inflammation and Covid-19 vaccines, the agency’s Director Rochelle Walensky said on April 27.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifted the restrictions on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on April 23. The announcement came after the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for a second time to discuss the data, with the benefits outweighing the risks.

Children attending summer camp can get within 3 feet (1 meter) of each other but should wear masks to limit the spread of Covid-19, according to fresh guidance issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

China’s CanSino Biologics will initiate clinical trials of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine that is inhaled, instead of injected.

The United States had administered 205,871,913 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as of the morning of April 17 and distributed 264,499,715 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The U.S. government will allot nearly 85 percent less Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines to states next week, data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.

Top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci on Feb. 23 told CNN that he expects the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to soon relax some Covid-19 recommendations aimed at curbing its spread for people who have been vaccinated.