{"id":1010,"date":"2021-03-10T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:26:30","slug":"cdc-issues-new-guidance-for-fully-vaccinate-individuals-visiting-and-the-relaxing-of-masks-and-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/03\/10\/cdc-issues-new-guidance-for-fully-vaccinate-individuals-visiting-and-the-relaxing-of-masks-and-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Issues New Guidance for Fully Vaccinate Individuals &#8211; Visiting and the Relaxing of Masks and Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Earlier this week, March 9, 2021, the CDC issued new guidance that provides that <strong>fully vaccinated <\/strong>people can do the following:<\/p><br><p>1.\u00a0 <strong>Visit<\/strong> with other fully vaccinated people <strong>indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing<\/strong>;<\/p><br><p>2.\u00a0 <strong>Visit<\/strong> with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors <strong>without wearing masks or physical distancing<\/strong>; and<\/p><br><p>3.\u00a0 <strong>Refrain<\/strong> from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic.<\/p><br><p>For purposes of the CDC guidance, someone is considered \u201c<strong>fully vaccinated<\/strong>\u201d 2 weeks after receiving their final COVID-19 vaccine dose. For individuals who receive the <strong>Moderna<\/strong> or <strong>Pfizer-BioNTech<\/strong> vaccine, this means 2 weeks after the second dose of the vaccine.\u00a0 For individuals who receive the <strong>J&amp;J\/Janssen<\/strong> vaccine, they will be considered &#8220;fully vaccinated&#8221; 2 weeks after they receive the first and only dose.<\/p><br><p><strong>Duane Morris<\/strong> has an active team of lawyers who have been engaged in the review and dissemination of COVID related alerts, blogs and advice on various COVID related topics.\u00a0 Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/coronavirus_covid_19.html#tab_BlogsAlertsandNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see our website<\/a> for a list of all available articles and blogs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><br><p>If you have any questions or thoughts, please contact <strong>Brad A. Molotsky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sharonlcaffrey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon Caffrey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/elizabethmincer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Mincer <\/a><\/strong>or any of the Duane Morris lawyers you regularly engage with.<br><br>Be well and stay safe.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, March 9, 2021, the CDC issued new guidance that provides that fully vaccinated people can do the following: 1.\u00a0 Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing; 2.\u00a0 Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/03\/10\/cdc-issues-new-guidance-for-fully-vaccinate-individuals-visiting-and-the-relaxing-of-masks-and-social-distancing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CDC Issues New Guidance for Fully Vaccinate Individuals &#8211; Visiting and the Relaxing of Masks and Social Distancing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[646,1117,1118,1124,1125,560,1123,1119,1126,1057,760],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cdc","tag-fully-vaccinated","tag-indoor","tag-jj","tag-janssen","tag-masks","tag-moderna","tag-outdoor","tag-pfizer","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}