From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.

Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm routine powers.

It's Friday, May 14.

Today, the new mask guidelines from the CDC, and why voting bills are targeting the

people who run elections.

The CDC announced some pretty big guidance on Thursday.

We have all longs for this moment, when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.

They announced that fully vaccinated people, which means that you are two weeks out from

getting either one dose of the Johnson and Johnson shot, or two weeks out from getting

the second dose of the Pfizer Moderna shot.

Don't have to wear a mask indoors or outdoors, and they don't have to physically distance.

Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance

of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come

for those who are fully vaccinated.

You can go back to a lot of your pre-pandemic activities.

You can get together in large groups.

There are, of course, caveats and exceptions to this, but this is a big change for a lot

of people's behavior.

My name is Yasmin Abu Talib, and I'm a health policy reporter with the Washington Post.

This feels like a huge milestone in the pandemic, but it also feels really fast, because it

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