A health worker shows the press how she is preparing a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to a patient at a vaccination center in front of Termini Central Station in Rome, 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) is giving the green light to vaccinated Americans, saying that indoor meetings without masks are safe.
According to the new guidelines announced Monday, the National Institute of Public Health said fully vaccinated Americans can gather without social distances or masks. The latest recommendations also mentioned that vaccinated people can visit with other low-risk healthy people.
“The CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people be able to visit unvaccinated people from another household indoors without wearing masks or physical distances, as long as unvaccinated people and unvaccinated members of their household are not at high risk for severe COVID-19 disease. Said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC director.
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– CDC (@CDCgov) March 8, 2021
Meanwhile, officials said a person is not considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after the last required dose.
Dr. Walensky also created more confusion about the vaccine, saying that people should wear masks in public, even if they were completely inoculated with COVID-19.