{"id":281,"date":"2021-03-09T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2022-09-17T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T20:55:28","slug":"new-guidance-for-the-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"New Guidance for the Fully Vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, the CDC published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">new guidance for fully vaccinated individuals<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this article, we will summarize the key points of this new guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, we must understand what it means to be fully vaccinated.&nbsp;&nbsp;The full effect of vaccine-induced immunity takes about 2 weeks, so an individual is considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the final vaccine injection.&nbsp;&nbsp;The final vaccine injection is the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the single dose of the Janssen vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, the CDC issued&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=269\">guidance<\/a>&nbsp;lifting the quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated individuals following a COVID exposure, provided they remain asymptomatic.&nbsp;&nbsp;Previously, this permission expired after 90 days.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yesterday, the CDC affirmed its previous guidance, but lifted the 90-day expiration.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to current CDC guidance, there is no longer an outer time-limit for the benefit of vaccine-induced immunity.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is bound to change; we will follow closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the removal of quarantine requirement, the CDC also added two additional liberties yesterday: (1) fully vaccinated individuals may visit indoors with other fully vaccinated individuals without wearing masks or social distancing, and (2) fully vaccinated individuals may visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for COVID-19 without wearing masks or social distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other COVID precautions remain in force for fully vaccinated individuals, including masking and social distancing in public except in the specific situations mentioned above.&nbsp;&nbsp;If symptoms develop, fully vaccinated individuals should follow the same quarantine and testing recommendations of unvaccinated individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the CDC published&nbsp;new guidance for fully vaccinated individuals.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this article, we will summarize the key points of this new guidance. First, we must understand what it means to be fully vaccinated.&nbsp;&nbsp;The full effect of vaccine-induced immunity takes about 2 weeks, so an individual is considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the final vaccine injection.&nbsp;&nbsp;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-covid-19","category-vaccine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":298,"url":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=298","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":0},"title":"Breakthrough","author":"Kevin Homer, MD","date":"March 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"As more Americans are receiving COVID vaccinations, there are reports of COVID occurring in individuals who have been fully vaccinated.\u00a0\u00a0Can this really happen? 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According to the new guidance, individuals who received their second FDA authorized mRNA vaccine injection between 14 and 90 days ago need not quarantine after exposure to COVID-19\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2021&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2021","link":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Advance-to-go.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Advance-to-go.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Advance-to-go.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":352,"url":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=352","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":3},"title":"Vaccinate the Previously Infected?  A Risk without Benefit","author":"Kevin Homer, MD","date":"June 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Vaccination of the previously infected is a risk without benefit because there\u2019s no significant difference between S-antibody levels stimulated by SARS-CoV-2 infection when compared with vaccine.\u00a0\u00a0 Using the same group of volunteers from our study to determine\u00a0antibody types stimulated by vaccine and\/or COVID, we measured the level of S-antibodies in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2021&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2021","link":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betterpathology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1038,"url":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=1038","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":4},"title":"Leaky Vaccines","author":"Kevin Homer, MD","date":"August 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A perfect vaccine protects like a child\u2019s immunity after chicken pox.\u00a0\u00a0It prevents future disease, prevents transmissions to others, and lasts for a very long time.\u00a0\u00a0Anything less is called a leaky vaccine.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s see how our current COVID vaccines stand up to each of these points: Prevent Future Disease.\u00a0\u00a0COVID vaccines don\u2019t connect\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2021&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2021","link":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":887,"url":"https:\/\/betterpathology.com\/?p=887","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":5},"title":"Updates, Questions, Present, and Future","author":"Kevin Homer, MD","date":"August 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot changed in pandemic landscape last week.\u00a0\u00a0This blog outlines those changes and highlights important unanswered questions. 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