The nurses draw doses of vaccine from a bottle as Maryland residents receive the second dose of the Modern Coronavirus vaccine at the Cameron Grove Community Center on March 25, 2021 in Bowie, Maryland.
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A new study by the National Institutes of Health aims to help doctors and public officials understand what people can and cannot do after being vaccinated against coronavirus, including whether they will still have to wear masks and practice social distancing. .
The study, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, will test the ability of Moderna Covid-19 to prevent coronavirus infection, limit the amount of virus in the nose and reduce transmission from inoculated people to close contact.
“We hope that in the next five months or so we will be able to answer the very important question of whether vaccinated people become asymptomatically infected and if they do, they transmit the infection to others,” White House Chief Counsel Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday in -a press briefing.
The randomized, controlled study will follow 12,000 students between the ages of 18 and 26 at more than 20 US universities over five months. Preliminary study sites opened Thursday.
Study participants will be randomly divided into two groups. Six thousand students will be vaccinated immediately with the Moderna two-shot vaccine spread over a distance of 28 days. Six thousand will be vaccinated four months later as an initial control group.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the first guide for people who were completely inoculated against Covid-19 on March 8. According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people can safely visit other fully vaccinated people and some unvaccinated people indoors without wearing masks. or social distancing.