March 8, 2021 – 12:16 pm
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El País editorial office – AFP
People vaccinated against covid-19 can meet in small groups indoors without wearing a mask or respecting social distance, health officials in the United States said Monday.
Those who have been vaccinated can meet without masks with unimmunized people from another household if they do not have risk factors for COVID-19, Rochelle Walenski, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), told a conference. the nation’s best federal public health agency.
However, vaccinated people who meet unimmunized people from several households at the same time will have to continue to wear a mask and maintain social distance.
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And they should do the same in public spaces and avoid traveling and meeting many people.
A person is considered vaccinated two weeks after the second dose is injected into Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, or the single dose into Johnson & Johnson, Walensky said.
Currently, only these three vaccines are licensed in the United States.