Biden launches an initiative to recruit 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and salons to accelerate vaccinations, among other incentives and outreach efforts.
Even unvaccinated individuals may go without masks when walking, jogging or biking outdoors with household members. CDC also provides clarifications and new guidance for the fully vaccinated related to work, quarantine and testing.
Federal health officials had recommended Tuesday that states pause use of the vaccine while agencies review six U.S. cases of a rare and severe type of brain blood clot among the more than 7 million people who received the shot.
The CDC report is significant, experts said, because it analyzed how well the vaccines worked among a diverse group of front-line working-age adults whose jobs make them more likely to be exposed to the virus and to spread it.