{"id":54760,"date":"2021-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/cdc-fully-vaccinated-can-shed-masks-in-most-outdoor-indoor-settings\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:11:11","slug":"cdc-fully-vaccinated-can-shed-masks-in-most-outdoor-indoor-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/cdc-fully-vaccinated-can-shed-masks-in-most-outdoor-indoor-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Fully Vaccinated Can Shed Masks in Most Outdoor, Indoor Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>New guidance does not apply to public transportation or health care settings<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, May 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Fully vaccinated Americans can now skip face masks and social distancing in most indoor or outdoor settings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long-awaited shift in guidance for Americans weary of more than a year under COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic,&#8221; CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., said during a White House COVID-19 briefing. &#8220;We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the new guidance does not apply to public transportation or health care settings, and some workplaces may still require masks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 117 million Americans are now fully vaccinated, about 35 percent of the population, CDC data show. A person is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their last dose of vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guidance does not apply to public transportation or health care settings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-54760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}