The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published guidelines for fully vaccinated people, describing what they can do safely, including maskless indoor visits with other vaccinated people. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the expected guidance during a White House COVID-19 briefing on Monday.
According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people can do the following:
- Visit with other people completely vaccinated inside without masks or physical distances;
- Visit with unvaccinated people from a single home who have a low risk of suffering from severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physically distancing themselves; i
- Skip quarantine guidelines and tests after known exposure, if asymptomatic.
The CDC still says those who are vaccinated should wear a face that is covered in public and still discourages non-essential travel. He also says that, for now, vaccinated people should continue to avoid medium- and large-scale meetings and that they should use preventative measures such as masks and distances when they are around multiple unvaccinated homes. The CDC also recommends testing if you experience symptoms of COVID-19.
“Science and public health protection should guide us when we begin to resume these activities,” Wolensky said. “Today’s action represents an important first step. It is not our final destination. As more people are vaccinated, COVID-19 infection levels in communities decrease and as our understanding improves. of immunity by COVID, we look forward to updating these recommendations to the public. ”
People are “completely vaccinated,” according to the CDC, if it’s been two weeks since they received the second shot from Pfizer or Modern or the only shot from Johnson & Johnson. Both the Pfizer and the Modern vaccine require two doses, while the vaccine Johnson & Johnson the vaccine is given in a single shot. This vaccine received an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on February 27 and the doses were distributed and administered as of last week.
The guide arrives when the nation is at a crossroads in its fight against the virus. In the last month, the national daily average has fallen by more than 50%, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, but this progress has been advanced.
States across the country, including New York, Massachusetts and Arkansas, have been loosening COVID-related restrictions on businesses, adding to fears that the US could leave the guard too soon. Last week, Texas became the third state to terminate its state mask mandate in recent days, joining Montana and Iowa.