Dr Anthony Fauci revealed that the CDC is working on recommendations for individuals who have received both doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Some recent studies provide a promising measure to determine when states can relax overall constraints.
The president’s chief medical adviser spoke on Sunday morning about the benefits of an aggressive vaccination campaign – the most important being the ways in which individuals can relax and resume some things ‘that we’ve never talked about’.
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“The CDC will appear in the next few weeks, maybe even earlier, with some guidelines,” Fauci told Dana Bash, host of State of the Union. “But one of the things I think is going to become clear is that if you have adults who are vaccinated – who are doubly vaccinated and protected – that you can do things that we have not talked about before.”
“You can have dinner in a house without masks. You can have friends who are doubly vaccinated and protected with you,” he added. “So you can start doing things in the house where you are not in the community.”
The guidance follows the approval of the Johnson & Johnson emergency vaccine. Some people are concerned about the vaccine, which is 72% effective compared to the much higher effectiveness of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, although the Johnson & Johnson vaccine requires only one shot, as opposed to two for the other.
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The more people receive the vaccine, the sooner the states can reopen properly. Fauci urgently insisted that the declining number of cases be used as an interim measure to alleviate restrictions; recent studies, however, have provided a measure to better understand when it would be safe.
“We have some preliminary data for some Israeli studies that the level of virus in the nasopharynx of vaccines is extremely low,” Fauci told host George Stephanopoulous for this week. “If this is the case and future studies show that it is so low, you are withdrawing some of the restrictions.”
When asked about reducing some safety measures, such as reducing social distance from six to three feet, Fauci refuses to provide guidance.
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“I’m not going to pass judgment on it because I do not know the specific situation below, but I can tell you that the CDC is constantly looking at things and reevaluating things,” Fauci said. “I do not want to jump for it, because I have to see the specific situation.”