A health worker shows the media how she prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to a patient at a vaccination center installed in front of Rome’s Termini central station, Monday, March 8, 2021. (Photo AP / Alessandra Tarantino)
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UPDATED 11:50 am PT – Monday, March 8, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are giving the green light to vaccinated Americans, saying that closed meetings without masks are safe.
According to the new guideline announced on Monday, the national institute of public health said that fully vaccinated Americans can meet without social distance or masks. The latest recommendations also noted that vaccinated people can visit other healthy, low-risk people.
“The CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people be able to visit unvaccinated people from another house indoors, without wearing masks or physical distance, as long as unvaccinated people and any unvaccinated members of their family are not at high risk of COVID disease -19 serious, “said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC.
#COVID-19 vaccines are effective in protecting against disease. Based on what we know, people who have been fully vaccinated can start doing some things that they have stopped doing because of the pandemic. To learn more, visit: https://t.co/FJMon7WlFO. pic.twitter.com/AjnGbe62us
– CDC (@CDCgov) March 8, 2021
In the meantime, officials said a person is not considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after the last necessary dose.
Dr. Walensky also created more confusion about the vaccine by saying that people should still wear masks in public, even if they had been fully inoculated with COVID-19.