UKRAINE – 2020/04/29: In this photo illustration the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web page displayed in internet on a pc screen and a coronavirus image on a mobile phone. The number of the COVID-19 coronavirus confirmed cases in the United States exceeded one million and exceeded three million in the world, according of COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images).
Have you been fully vaccinated? Here is the CDC’s specific guidance for what fully vaccinated people can do:
- “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 to COVID-19 if asymptomatic”
Also, if a fully vaccinated person is exposed to someone with COVID-19, they don’t have to worry about quarantining or getting tested unless they begin to experience symptoms. However, the CDC still recommends you wear a mask in public and avoid large crowds. ‘Fully vaccinated’ means at least two weeks have passed since getting your final dose of vaccine. Full details on the interim public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people are available here.
What’s the first thing you plan to do once you’ve been vaccinated?