CDC Issues First Recommendations For People Fully Vaccinated for COVID-19
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:
- Visit with other fully vaccinated people in an indoor space without mask wearing or social distancing.
- Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household without mask wearing or social distancing, if the unvaccinated people are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease
- Abstain from quarantine and testing after a known exposure, if the exposure was to asymptomatic people.
The guidance also recommends that fully vaccinated people continue to:
- Wear a well-fitted face covering in public
- Continue mask wearing, social distancing, and other infection control measures when visiting with unvaccinated people at increased risk of severe disease or if visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households
- Undergo testing if COVID-19 symptoms occur
- Follow CDC and health department travel requirements
- Continue avoiding medium- and large-sized in-person gatherings.
To read the full article, visit Contemporary Pediatrics.
Reference
- 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people. Published March 8, 2021. Accessed March 8, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html
