A new study finds your odds of testing positive for COVID-19 are 83% lower if wearing an N95 or KN95 mask while indoors compared to no mask.
shows that vaccines are still dramatically reducing the risk of testing positive, requiring hospitalization, or dying of COVID-19.
In December, unvaccinated adults had a three times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19, compared to vaccinated individuals. Previously reported data, published last month, showed that the unvaccinated were 15 times more likely to die from COVID-19 in November. Similarly, in December, unvaccinated adults were five times more likely to test positive, compared to fully vaccinated and boosted Americans.
Unvaccinated adults, ages 30 to 49 years old, also saw the highest case-incidence rate while omicron was surging.CDC director greenlights full approval for Moderna vaccineCDC Director Rochelle Walensky has given the greenlight on full approval for Moderna's vaccine for all adults, which was the last step in the process for the vaccine to move from an emergency use authorization to a permanent approval.
Walensky's ruling came after the CDC's advisory committee voted unanimously Friday to give the Moderna vaccine full approval.-ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos, Cheyenne Haslett
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