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New CDC guidelines say vaccinated Americans can now ditch the masks, with a few exceptions: Live COVID-19 updates
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/05/13/covid-vaccine-cdc-variant-fda-clots-world-health-organization/5066504001/ Fully vaccinated Americans can discard masks and the need for social distancing outdoors and in most indoors settings, the CDC said Thursday in a dramatic announcement after months of mostly cautious measures.
The new guidelines announced by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, represent a major step toward a return to normalcy for a nation battered and at times divided by a pandemic that has lasted more than a year.
“Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing,” Walensky said. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.”
A person is considered fully vaccinated against the coronavirus two weeks after getting the second Pfizer or Moderna shot or the same length of time after receiving the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Answers to your questions:CDC lifts indoor mask guidelines for fully vaccinated people. What does it actually mean?
The new guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings such as buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters but could ease restrictions for reopening workplaces and schools. In addition, the agency will no longer recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks outdoors in crowds, possibly allowing for bigger capacities at sporting events.
“Today is a great day for America in our long battle with the coronavirus,” President Joe Biden said in the Rose Garden after the CDC’s announcement. “It think it’s a great milestone.”
Biden was meeting with GOP senators in the Oval Office when the CDC issued the new guidance and told his guests they could ditch their masks, according to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
“The president said let’s just take them off, right here, in the meeting,” Blunt told reporters.
Masks mandates got politicized under former President Donald Trump, who usually eschewed face coverings and mocked those who had them, and they became a source of discord in parts of the country.
The new recommendations from the CDC could also serve as an incentive for the tens of millions of eligible Americans who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get their shots. Though more than 46% of the U.S. population of 330 million has received at least one vaccine dose, polls have shown about 25% don’t intend to get inoculated.
Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are at their lowest rate since September and deaths are at their lowest point since April 2020, averaging about 600 a day, but some experts still worry that the emergence of variants could disrupt that momentum and create another surge, especially as the virus continues to rage in other parts of the world.
Biden’s administration had been under pressure to loosen pandemic restrictions as more Americans got vaccinated and infections diminished across most of the country.
Dr. Jay Wolfson, a public health expert at the University of South Florida, said the CDC had lost a great “a great deal of credibility” in the public’s perception in part because its cautious guidance often lagged behind the “pragmatic realities” of the pandemic.
Contributing: Joel Shannon, Maureen GroppeH

Possibly all restrictions lifted as of June 11

Illinois bridge phase: Mask mandates, crowd limits eased as state enters next-to-last phase of reopening plan
Dan Petrella, Gregory Pratt, Jenny Whidden – Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-pritzker-bridge-phase-20210513-tnxul2hs5rawheah47znk4zjve-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daywatch&utm_content=911620988415#nws=true

Life may start to feel closer to normal in Illinois beginning Friday, as more people are allowed into stadiums, amusement parks, restaurants and shops, and masks are expected to soon become optional in most situations for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The move to the next-to-last phase of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s coronavirus reopening plan is a precursor to all restrictions being lifted, which could happen as soon as June 11. In addition to the looser guidelines of Pritzker’s bridge phase, officials offered some incentives for those who haven’t yet gotten their shots.