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The CDC still says “do not travel.”
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But President Biden, who has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is shooting across the country.
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Leading independent health experts say he should be allowed to do so, as should others who have completed vaccinations.
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President Biden takes a victory round in the US, although COVID-19 is still spreading.
On Wednesday, he toured parts of Pennsylvania, and on Friday he will be in Georgia, as part of the White House’s “Help is Here” tour featuring the new COVID-19 relief money – offering a new round of $ 1,400 include payments to qualification. Americans.
Thus, Biden – who has been fully vaccinated for almost two months now – does not follow what his own Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommends.
“CDC recommends that you do not travel at this time,” the agency’s website has been reading for months. “Travel increases your chances of distributing and receiving COVID-19.”
The CDC maintains that not enough people have been vaccinated yet to make nationwide travel safe again.
But many independent leading public health experts have said what Biden is doing is perfectly OK, and that the CDC is too harsh and cautious in its guidance for vaccines, even though it is still very risky for individuals who have not been vaccinated.
Health experts agree: travel within travel should be a benefit for vaccinated
Dr. Carlos del Rio, a leading professor of medicine at Emory University, is just one of the latest to recommend behaviors along with other health professionals that the CDC does not yet do.
“Yes, you can travel if you are fully vaccinated,” del Rio said Monday on a JAMA live stream. “You know, wear a mask and so on, but it’s going to be safe.”
Other big names for public health who argue that it is good for people who have been vaccinated to travel, provided they have given their shots a few weeks to take effect, include: dr. Leana Wen (former Baltimore Health Commissioner), dr. University of Michigan), Dr. Ashish Jha (dean, Brown University School of Public Health), and many, many more.
“Keeping telling people not to travel will not help us,” del Rio added. “People just don’t listen.”
Vaccines have to wait a few more weeks for their shots and wear a mask in public
President Biden was vaccinated on December 21 with his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and completed his two-dose course on January 11. at least two weeks thereafter before traveling, to make sure the shots have had enough time to take effect.
There are still some small concerns that can catch vaccinated people, and then spread COVID-19 to others, even if they themselves show no symptoms, so it is important that people who are vaccinated still wear masks. But more and more research suggests that this is highly unlikely, especially with the vaccines approved in the US for emergency use by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Early studies suggest that these three COVID-19 vaccines are 74 to 94% effective in preventing asymptomatic infections, even when the more transmissible and slightly lethal B.1.1.7 variant, first discovered in the UK , is in the mixture.
“In short: the vaccines work in the real world,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci said during an information session of the White House COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Airplanes around the world may not be practical yet, but short flights to visit family members and domestic vacations should be according to vaccination. Win.
“We can not just have an abstinence about this,” said Dr. Preeti Malani, the head of health at the University of Michigan, spoke about JAMA and stressed the importance of personal meetings for our emotional well-being. “We must also remember that COVID is not the only risk in our lives, and that all other risks must be balanced with it.”
It looks like Biden has already accepted that. It would be nice if his public health agency did the same.
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