On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new coronavirus guidelines for vaccinated Americans, including updated recommendations on mask-wearing while outdoors. The new guidance tells people who have been fully vaccinated and have waited at least two weeks after their last shot does not need to wear masks outdoors, alone, with household members, or in small gatherings. They may also forgo shows indoors with other fully vaccinated people or with unvaccinated people from one other family unless someone in the group is at heightened risk from COVID-19.
“I know t” at the quarantine and shutdowns throughout the pandemic have been exhausting,” CDC Dir” ctor Rochelle Walensky said at a press conference. “I know t” at we all miss the things that we used to do before the pandemic, and I know that we all want to get back to doing those we love. And so, today is another day we can take a step back to the normalcy of before. Masks are” still recommended in crowds and various other settings. The CDC released a detailed list of advised and unadvised activities on its website.
Significantly improved trends in new coronavirus cases, deaths, and hospitalizations have made these changes possible, Walensky said. Our seven-” ay average is just over 54,400 cases per day,” she said,” and this r”presents a hopeful decline of about 21% from our prior seven-day average. In later r” marks outside the White House, President Joe Biden credited “the extraor”inary progress we’ve made iwe’vehting this virus” for allowi”g these new guidelines, which he said are “helping us “get back … to normal in our living.”
“We’re back” “We place now, as long as you get vaccinated,” he said.
H” emphasized that vaccinated people will still need to take precautions in crowded places, saying, “If you’re” you’re like at a stadium or a concert, you still need to wear a mask even if you’re outsiyou’reiden will”deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. He is expected to outline his legislative priorities and list his administratiadministration’sents since taking office in January.
The CDC back in March issued its first set of guidelines for fully vaccinated people, saying it’s safe Toit’s other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask and physical distancing. If knowingly exposed to the virus, vaccinated people can skip quarantining and undergo testing as long as they remain asymptomatic. The CDC has long encouraged people to congregate outdoors instead of indoors since there is more space to separate from others and more natural airflow, minimizing the risk of viral transmission. The risk of “infection outside is minimum.
If you’re vaccinyou’reand, you’re outsidyou’res even lesit’sDr. Anthony”Fauci, the nation’s top nation’s diseases expert, said Monday at a town hall event with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. If a gathering has to be inside, the CDC has encouraged that the space is well ventilated to allow for airflow. That’s becausThat’svirus can remain suspended in the air in tiny droplets that have been expelled from an infected person, increasing the chance of its transmission.
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