Report Interest in vaccinations increased after CDC announced new mask guidance

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Thu, 2021-05-27 13:46 — mike kraft

Interest in vaccinations increased after CDC announced new mask guidance Data obtained exclusively by CNN shows that interest in getting vaccinated against Covid-19 increased right after Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced two weeks ago that vaccinated people could take off their masks. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent CNN

(CNN) Data obtained exclusively by CNN shows that interest in getting vaccinated against Covid-19 increased right after Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced two weeks ago that vaccinated people could take off their masks.

"This shows incentives matter," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine. "People needed a carrot, and the carrot was the ability to drop the mask in most settings."

The data comes from vaccines.gov, where people look up vaccination sites by zip code.

On the afternoon of May 13, just after Walensky's announcement, the number of visits to the site started to climb, hitting its second highest number of visitors since the website was launched on April 30. ...

A few hours after Walensky's announcement, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, told CNN that "the decision that the CDC made was not as an incentive to get people vaccinated, but this could actually have the indirect effect of getting people to be incentivized to get vaccinated."

In the days that followed, Walensky's announcement become controversial, with some saying it might not incentivize people to get vaccinated and could actually increase the spread of Covid-19, as people who have not been vaccinated could be dishonest and take off their masks.

So far, CDC data shows that the number of Covid-19 cases in the US has decreased steadily since May 13.ET, Walensky made her surprising announcement. ...

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