The following report is from NBC:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks or physically distance — whether indoors or outdoors in most circumstances.
We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.
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.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky. CDC Director
President Joe Biden called the move a “great milestone” during remarks Thursday at the White House, adding that it was “made possible by the extraordinary success we’ve had in vaccinating so many Americans, so quickly.”
More than 35 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Outside experts in infectious disease overwhelmingly hailed the move.
Today marks a true turning point in the pandemic. If you’re fully vaccinated, you are good to go. That’s huge.
Dr. Richard Besser. President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the CDC
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said:
It’s exactly what we ought to be doing right now. I think it follows the best science.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said the move is “long overdue.”
Our goal was to tame this virus, to defang and to remove its ability to threaten hospitals. I think we’ve accomplished that in the United States.
The recommendations come more than a year after the CDC first recommended that Americans should wear masks to protect against spreading or catching the coronavirus. At that time, the U.S. was logging more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths a day.
A person is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after the last dose of Covid-19 vaccine. That gives the immune system enough time to develop antibodies against the virus.
The new recommendation is proof, Walensky said, that the vaccines are working extraordinarily well. She cited several studies from the U.S. and Israel that demonstrated vaccines are more than 90 percent effective in preventing symptomatic Covid-19.
There are a few caveats, however. People who have compromised immune systems, for example, should talk to their doctors about continuing with mitigation measures. And even fully vaccinated people may still be asked to wear masks in certain places, such as in hospitals or other health care settings, as well as public transportation.
Right now for travel, we’re asking people to wear their masks. We still have the requirement to wear masks when you travel on buses, trains and other forms of public transportation.
Rochelle Walensky
The guidance comes two days after Walensky and other federal health officials were grilled about mask guidance during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said the American people had “lost patience” over the CDC’s mixed messages on mask-wearing. In late April, the CDC said people who are fully vaccinated could forgo masks outdoors but not in crowded spaces.
I think the CDC has received many contacts from the field, people in public health departments and academic centers, urging that they move” toward lifting mask recommendations, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vaccinated people need some sort of reward.
Even though the vaccines work well, they are not perfect, and breakthrough infections can occur. Of the more than 117 million people in the U.S. who have been fully vaccinated, 9,245 later tested positive for Covid-19. Those illnesses have generally been mild.
Meanwhile, even those who have been vaccinated should still feel comfortable wearing masks if they choose, experts said. It is clear that masking and physical distancing this winter worked to stop the spread of respiratory diseases, such as the flu.
We have all been getting such comfort out of wearing our masks and keeping apart. And now to say, OK, it’s safe to come out? It’s going to take a little while for people to internalize that.
Dr. Richard Besser
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, warned against relaxing mitigation measures too much, especially in states with lower vaccination rates.
Transmission is still high in certain parts of the country, and this needs to be monitored. If transmission starts going up again, we may have to be prepared to modify this.
Dr. Peter Hotez
For now, the CDC guidance applies only to those who have been fully vaccinated. Soon, that group will include children ages 12 and older, now that the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration have both signed off on Covid-19 vaccines for that age group.
The CDC is expected to update its guidance on children in school and summer camps soon.
For those who remain unvaccinated or who have only had a single dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, Walensky advised continuing to wear masks.
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“I think it follows the best science.” -oh please, you liars have been making this up from day one. The WinePress has been noting the endless hypocrisy from these people.
[20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: [21] Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.1 Timothy 6:20-21
Quite literally two days ago the CDC was saying that Covid is now airborne over 6 feet, and CNBC was pushing propaganda of what offices and other buildings should do, including all this air filtration nonsense. There was no science to conclude the six feet, and there was never any science to increase it.
Beware Of The “WELL Health Safety Seal”
By hey, congratulations to all you lemmings: you lord’s gave you some of your freedoms back that can be retaken again because you willingly and gladly bent the knee to them.
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Before the video called How COVID-19 is creating TEOTWAWKI was deleted, Bryan Denlinger pointed out that there would be another dividing of people into 2 classes (but this time): those who receive the vaccine, & those who refuse (I will be refusing the vaccine by the way). Those who got their shots (whether it be the 1 dose Johnson & Johnson or the 2 dose series of Pfizer or Moderna) are allowed the “right” (more like privilege) to return to “normal” life (more like life in tyranny) and those who refuse would be subject to not only shaming, plus possible restrictions (more likely), but it could be that the government officials and politicians would impose either fines (also more likely), imprisonment, or even worse, the death penalty. I bet that my family, including my baby cousin who is about to graduate high school would shame me for not submitting to this vaccine tyranny.
They are about to administer the vaccine to those who are between the ages of 12 and 15 (In New York, the middle school and high school students need parental consent, in order to receive Pfizer), while pending the full FDA approval process (if Pfizer gets their way, the COVID-19 vaccine mandate is more likely than when it had their EUA status).
I meant “HOW COVID-19 is causing TWOTWAWKI”
He’s got it on Rumble atm:
https://rumble.com/vgm1zx-how-covid19-is-causing-teotwaki.html