White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Thursday it was very likely that family members vaccinated against coronavirus could embrace each other safely.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases explained that what vaccinated individuals can do safely with family members and in the public environment is very different.
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If an individual is vaccinated and with another person being vaccinated, the things they can do are ‘much, much more liberal in the sense of withdrawing strict public health measures,’ Fauci said in an interview on the MSBNC with Andrea Mitchell.
People are waiting in line to get their COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center set up in a park in the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)
However, if he is in the ‘society’, the safety of a vaccinated individual is not as certain as only a small portion of the population has been vaccinated, he said.
“For example, if you are vaccinated and a member of your family is vaccinated – someone [who] did not live with you – can you really be without them without a mask? Can I sit down and give them a hug and stuff like that? And the answer, of course, is very likely. ‘
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“But if only 10% of society is vaccinated, you can not go to a restaurant or a theater because it is not going to open,” he told Mitchell. “So that’s why … you have to separate it from what you can do in a certain vacuum from what you can do in society.”
As of Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said about 42 million people had received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine. Of the 17 million people were completely vaccinated.
Although the vaccine does not mean that an individual can not re-infect, it drastically reduces the chance and reduces the severity of an infection.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 95% effective in protecting against the COVID-19 virus, although CDC and Fauci still urge those who have been vaccinated to continue taking masks and social distance.
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As states move into different phases of vaccine vaccination, dangerous winter weather has hampered the process in almost all 50 countries.
Andy Slavitt, adviser on coronavirus in the White House, said on Friday that about six million doses had been delayed due to bad weather and that 1.4 million of them were already in transit because they were working to clear the backlog.