What CDC guidelines are likely to say (and not say) if you are vaccinated

Official: Nothing ‘sneaky’ about delayed guidelines

The Biden government has been following these guidelines for weeks. They are generally expected to appear on Thursday, but according to an official involved in the drafting process, they are still ongoing.

During the Trump administration, White House officials sometimes had a heavy hand with CDC guidelines, which, according to CDC officials, prescribed what the agency could and could not say.

But that is not what is currently happening with these new guidelines, according to the Biden administration official.

“I do not think there is anything ominous going on,” the official said.

The official said a draft of the new guidelines had probably been sent to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services so staff there could know in advance what they were saying.

“I do not envy the authors of these guidelines,” Schaffner said. ‘You can paint some pictures with a fairly broad brush, but people want to apply general guidelines to the specific life, and it’s getting very, very funny. There is no way to capture everything. ‘

The CDC must find a difficult balance with these guidelines, the experts said.

Guidelines should encourage people to be vaccinated, help the vaccinated to understand that they still need to be careful and manage the expectations of unvaccinated people.

“We do not want people who have not been fully vaccinated to think that everything has been lifted and that we can put things behind us, and the pandemic is over, because it is not,” the official said.

It’s not like going back to 2019

Although the guidelines do not give the vaccinated permission to start living again as in 2019, according to an official from Biden administration, the guidelines do offer hope that the end of total social isolation is near.

You will eventually be able to show your vaccinated friends to your vaccinated projects of the past year.

However, do not throw away that cloth mask. The guidelines would advise the vaccinated to still wear masks in public and keep a good physical distance from others.

“While we are still all vaccinated, our primary societal goal remains to protect the unvaccinated,” Richterman said.

Masks help to do this. And there is no guarantee that vaccinated people will still not be able to carry viruses in their noses or throats – viruses that may not make the carrier sick, but that can be spit out and infect someone who has not been vaccinated.

“Masks keep working, and we need them against the variants,” Schaffner said. Public health experts are concerned that the spread of the more contagious variant could prolong the pandemic.

The guidelines should also help find vaccinated interactions with loved ones in their nursing homes, which have been kept behind closed doors for more than a year. It should also include travel advice.

Unfortunately, vaccination is not a “free pass to travel,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci said in early February in a CNN Global Town Hall. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that ‘essential’ travel is a yes, but we do not want people to think because they have been vaccinated, then other recommendations for public health just do not apply. ‘

The guidelines will not be completely prescriptive and will tell you exactly what you can and cannot do once you have been vaccinated.

The guidelines will not tell you whether or not you can with Aunt Mary, for example, nor will you tell whether your grandfather can at the coffee shop or not for a game Settlers of Catan with the new ‘sheep strategy’ you learned while you were stuck at home.

“It’s impossible to get to that level of detail. We can not predict every situation people are in,” the Biden official explained. “What we can do is give people principles to think through. It gives people the means to think about it and then they can choose what level of risk they want to take.”