The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that fully vaccinated Americans can return to some sense of normalcy.
In a long-awaited update of its guidance for behaviours to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, The CDC said people who are two weeks past their final shot may visit indoors with unvaccinated members of a single household at low risk of severe disease, without wearing masks or distancing.
The development is good news to vaccinated grandparents as it affords them the opportunity to visit their unvaccinated children and grandchildren for the first time in a year.
However, those who are vaccinated are still required to follow other basic safety measures, like wearing masks and socially distancing in public as well as avoiding large crowds and travel.
The guidelines also call for masking and distancing from those who are unvaccinated and who may be at an elevated risk of serious Covid-related complications.
In addition, the vaccinated are still advised to avoid non essential travels.
It is worthwhile to note that Nearly 18% of the U.S. population, or 58.9 million adults had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Currently authorised COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from becoming ill but not necessarily from being infected.
Data on whether vaccinated people can still spread the virus to unprotected people is sparse, and Walensky warned that the risk vaccinated people could spread the disease remained.
