COVID-19: CDC: When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

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Today the CDC released updated recommendations for what you can do When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated.

First, what does it mean to be fully vaccinated?

People are considered fully vaccinated:

• 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or
• 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, like Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine

Now the good stuff: if you’ve been fully vaccinated:

• You can gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing a mask.
• You can gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household (for example, visiting with relatives who all live together) without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
• If you’ve been around someone who has COVID-19, you do not need to stay away from others or get tested unless you have symptoms.
  • However, if you live in a group setting (like a correctional or detention facility or group home) and are around someone who has COVID-19, you should still stay away from others for 14 days and get tested, even if you don’t have symptoms.

Everything else stays the same. Except when you're with at most one unvaccinated person, continue wearing a mask, staying 6' away from other people, avoiding medium-to-large sized gatherings, and so on.

...And continue watching for symptoms, because the protection you get from being vaccinated is not 100%.

Links:

  @ When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated | CDC
  @ Fully vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says
  @ CDC issues guidelines telling the vaccinated what they can do - Washington Post