March 8, 2021 – 12:16 p.m.
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El País editorial staff – AFP
People vaccinated against covid-19 can gather among themselves in small groups indoors without wearing masks or respecting social distancing, U.S. health authorities said Monday.
Those who have been vaccinated can also meet without mouthpieces with unimmunized people from another household if they do not have risk factors for covid-19, said Rochelle Walenski, director of the Centers for Vaccination. Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the country’s leading federal public health agency.
However, vaccinated people who meet unimmunized people from several different households at the same time will need to continue to wear masks and maintain social distancing.
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And they will have to do the same in public spaces and avoid travel and meetings with a lot of people.
A person is considered vaccinated when two weeks have passed since the injection of the second dose, in the case of Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna products, or the single dose, in the case of Johnson & Johnson, Walensky said. .
At the moment only these three vaccines are authorized in the United States.