People who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 don’t need to quarantine if they’ve been exposed to the virus, according to new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Health officials still recommend quarantining if you’ve had COVID-19 exposure and if you haven’t received the vaccine yet. People are often asked to stay away from others for 10 to 14 days to see if they develop COVID-19 symptoms.
What’s new
The CDC said that quarantining isn’t needed for fully vaccinated people within three months of receiving their last dose, assuming they don’t develop any symptoms.
- People are considered fully vaccinated if they have had both doses of the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, or one dose of a single-dose vaccine, according to the CDC. People should wait two weeks after receiving their doses before following these rules.
- ”Vaccination has been demonstrated to prevent symptomatic COVID-19; symptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission is thought to have a greater role in transmission than purely asymptomatic transmission,” according to the CDC.
Anything else?
- Vaccinated folks should still wear masks, social distance and avoid crowds, per NBC News.
The numbers
- Overall, 10% of the United States has received at least one shot of the novel coronavirus vaccine, per CNN. That’s about 33.8 million people. In total, 10.5 million have received both doses of the vaccine, according to CNN.