The CDC has issued interim guidance for masking, social distancing, hand hygiene, and other infection control measures for people who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have produced the first set of guidelines for people who have received either 2 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or the 1 dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine.1
For the purposes of the guidance, a person is considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19, ≥2 weeks after receiving the second dose of the 2-dose vaccines and the ≥2 weeks after receiving the vaccine of the single-dose vaccine. The recommendations are also only for non-health care settings.
A fully vaccinated people can:
The guidance also recommends that fully vaccinated people continue to:
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