NEW CDC: Here are the guidelines for fully vaccinated people and those who are unvaccinated

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Mar 8, 2021
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announces fully vaccinated people can gather indoors without masks in small, private settings.



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Here are the guidelines for fully vaccinated people and those who are unvaccinated: https://axios.com/cdc-guidance-vaccinated-people-6765f100-683e-4a78-8e2c-1b573c5683b8.html…
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9:23 AM · Mar 8, 2021

https://www.axios.com/cdc-guidance-vaccinated-people-6765f100-683e-4a78-8e2c-1b573c5683b8.html

[underpants]

1. ☀️

☀️ Looks like we are THIS close to being in the clear.
Not yet but we are really close.

[Yonnie3]

2. CDC: Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People

Direct from the CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html

Key Points

This is the first set of public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people. This guidance will be updated and expanded based on the level of community spread of SARS-CoV-2, the proportion of the population that is fully vaccinated, and the rapidly evolving science on COVID-19 vaccines.

For the purposes of this guidance, people are considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 ?2 weeks after they have received the second dose in a 2-dose series (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), or ?2 weeks after they have received a single-dose vaccine (Johnson and Johnson [J&J]/Janssen ).†

The following recommendations apply to non-healthcare settings.

Fully vaccinated people can:

Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing

Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing

Refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic

For now, fully vaccinated people should continue to:

Take precautions in public like wearing a well-fitted mask and physical distancing

Wear masks, practice physical distancing, and adhere to other prevention measures when visiting with unvaccinated people who are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease or who have an unvaccinated household member who is at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease

Wear masks, maintain physical distance, and practice other prevention measures when visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households

Avoid medium- and large-sized in-person gatherings

Get tested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms

Follow guidance issued by individual employers

Follow CDC and health department travel requirements and recommendations

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More details on CDC website

[Hugin]

3. So, basically keep wearing the damn masks, distancing, and isolation.

Until the all's clear is sounded.

With the exception of being able to move among small pods.

[Yonnie3]

5. Your summary seems correct to me.

I haven't read all the information there yet.

Personally, I am five weeks from being considered fully vaccinated, assuming my second dose is on time. I doubt I will change my behavior in five weeks. I will worry much less about the dentist and other risky (IMO) activities.

[Hugin]

9. Yeah, a dental visit is a perfect example. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

8. It's a bit more nuanced than that.

My parents are fully vaccinated.

My spouse and I are each partially vaccinated.

Our daughter (who lives with us) is not partly vaccinated, but probably considered high risk. (She works 60 hours a week at two different employment settings. One high contact wtih the public (Starbucks); the other low-contact (Amazon warehouse) - but she works a 10 hours shift and shares a break room for meals with unmasked co-workers. They each have plexiglass barriers between them and they are running HEPA purifiers. But it is still unmasked indoors.

My parents can visit with their neighbors (who are all vaccinated) indoors in whatever configuration they want, and get as close as they want. They could have a party for 50 of their neighbors in a small unit.

My parents can visit wtih my spouse and I without masks or physical distancing - our partially vaccinated state makes us low risk. But we can't bring a second household e.g. my brother and his wife.

My parents could not vist with our daughter without masks or physical distancing because she is high risk.

(The rules at the place they live aren't that lenient yet - so this is all theoretical. Their retirement community has done a remarkable job of keeping them safe. They have had a grand total of 1 case of COVID. So I'm willing to respect their judgment.)

[wiggs]

14. Right! Everyone's situation is different...and CDC guidance may be balancing the

idea of overall public health with guidance for individuals. Yes...they say that there are low risk activities vaccinated people may wish to partake in...but everyone should understand that it's not zero risk for you nor for those you're around. And if you definitely do NOT want to get infected then you might not want even low risk scenarios. Their guidance, however, may reduce chances of infections in enough people so that public health systems are not again overwhelmed.

People and headline writers will find what they want in the guidance and simplify it...but there are a lot of 'ifs' in the statement. there may be surges due variants, localized spread, relaxation of restrictions, kids going back to school, etc.

For ourselves, we will relax a bit while the numbers appear low but will still be quite careful. We remember that current reported numbers are two weeks old, that the US isn't screening for variants like some other countries.

My wife has had one shot, me none...

[Ms. Toad]

15. The low risk activities this addresses are extremely limited.

They are only talking about activities in the home (or similar settings where access is strictly controlled).

Within a setting like that - vaccinated people are safe to be with other vaccinated people. (I.e. my parents can go visit their neighbors in their retirement community who are also vaccinated, because the only people present are vaccinated people). They can't go out to a restaurant - even if they only sit at a table with other vaccinated people because there are unvaccinated people in the restaurant whose risk levels are unknown.

Still within a controlled access setting - vaccinated people are safe to be with unvaccinated people from a single household, so long as those unvaccinated people are at low risk for COVID.

[demmiblue]

4. ...

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[uponit7771]

7. This is a complete mistake MAGA Cult will use this as a license for large gatherings

[Hugin]

10. Yup, a green light to keep doing what they've done all along.

With the addition of forming a class system based on vaccination status.

Which is what they've been aiming for since last October. Y'know, to keep the riff-raff off the beaches.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, their dumb asses wont even get vaccinated they're just going to gather in large numbers and make

... authorities prove their vacinated which they wont want to do.

These guys

[Mariana]

11. The MAGA cult are already ignoring the guidelines

and have been for a long time. This isn't going to change their behavior.

[mucifer]

13. They won't change. This is for us not them. SCIENCE!!!

[11 Bravo]

16. I will be fully vaccinated as of 3/19, and ...

I will certainly continue to wear a mask!

Who besides a moron or a Texas/Lousiana governor would do otherwise?