CDC's Do's and Don'ts For Fully Vaccinated People

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

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The CDC released new guidance Monday, allowing people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to resume some pre-pandemic activities, including gathering indoors with other vaccinated people without wearing masks. Health correspondent Allison Aubrey walks us through the new recommendations and what precautions fully vaccinated people still need to take.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:06.1	Maddie Sify here with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey Hayalson.
0:10.5	Hey, great to be here, Maddie.
0:12.0	So you're here because there was a press briefing by the White House COVID-19 response
0:16.9	team on Monday with some long awaited guidance.
0:20.6	Good morning and thank you.
0:21.7	I'm glad to be back with you today.
0:23.5	Let's get started.
0:24.2	So that is CDC director Rochelle Wylinski.
0:26.9	And she said after weeks of study decline in new coronavirus cases,
0:30.9	there's been a leveling off of the decline.
0:33.4	The country's averaging about 60,000 new cases a day.
0:36.2	Yeah.
0:36.7	I mean, it's not great.
0:37.4	Case load wise, we are pretty much where we were right before the winter surge.
0:42.0	And the most recent seven day average of deaths is slightly lower than 2000 deaths per day.
0:48.8	So that's pretty troubling.
0:50.4	But Wylinski also said she was hopeful and she pointed to the approximately 31 million
0:56.0	people. That's about 12% of US adults who are fully vaccinated.
1:01.0	And as more Americans are vaccinated, a growing body of evidence now tells us that
1:05.9	there are some activities that fully vaccinated people can resume at low risk to
1:11.0	themselves.
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