I think we’ll get a lot of pretty good data out of nursing homes on what is safe because most residents of nursing homes are vaccinated now and significant numbers of workers in nursing homes are not vaccinated. Sit tight.
Seems like the spokesperson was not in complete agreement with the CDC website. 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. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html
When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated How to Protect Yourself and Others Updated Mar. 8, 2021 Print COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic. We’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19. After you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking precautions in public places like wearing a mask, staying 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces until we know more. Have You Been 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 If it has been less than 2 weeks since your shot, or if you still need to get your second dose, you are NOT fully protected. Keep taking all prevention steps until you are fully vaccinated. What’s Changed 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. What Hasn’t Changed For now, if you’ve been fully vaccinated: You should still take steps to protect yourself and others in many situations, like wearing a mask, staying at least 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces. Take these precautions whenever you are: In public Gathering with unvaccinated people from more than one other household Visiting with an unvaccinated person who is at increased risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 or who lives with a person at increased risk You should still avoid medium or large-sized gatherings. You should still delay domestic and international travel. If you do travel, you’ll still need to follow CDC requirements and recommendations. You should still watch out for symptoms of COVID-19, especially if you’ve been around someone who is sick. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you should get tested and stay home and away from others. You will still need to follow guidance at your workplace. What We Know and What We’re Still Learning We know that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing COVID-19 disease, especially severe illness and death. We’re still learning how effective the vaccines are against variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. Early data show the vaccines may work against some variants but could be less effective against others. We know that other prevention steps help stop the spread of COVID-19, and that these steps are still important, even as vaccines are being distributed. We’re still learning how well COVID-19 vaccines keep people from spreading the disease. Early data show that the vaccines may help keep people from spreading COVID-19, but we are learning more as more people get vaccinated. We’re still learning how long COVID-19 vaccines can protect people. As we know more, CDC will continue to update our recommendations for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html I am posting this in case it changes.
The probability is that public health guidance will change over time as more people are vaccinated. This should be expected.
Under the Trump administration -- The CDC's leaders appointed by Trump responded to political pressure to make statements not aligned with medical and scientific reality. This included the Trump appointees not allowing the CDC staff to offer standard press conferences & releases and guidance. At times the CDC staff undermined their Trump-appointed bosses by simply quietly posting COVID information on the CDC website. This has changed under the Biden administration where the CDC staff are regularly providing guidance via press releases & conferences. The Biden-appointed CDC leaders are allowing the CDC to do its job without political interference.
Just in case anyone thought we didn't have enough problems... Zombie Preparedness https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/index.htm
You obviously have very clean ears and a command of the English language... Others obviously do not. wrbtrader
Great to see even the CDC can poke a little fun at the Covid situation. I love it especially because I'm a big Zombie movie fan and joked a lot early in the Pandemic about Zombies especially when I saw someone attacking via the "lefties"...attempting to continue with the Political bullshit instead of treating Covid as a health crisis. wrbtrader
Flu disappeared because people were wearing masks. Covid spread because people weren’t wearing masks. tHE SCienCE!