What CDC COVID Vaccination Recommendations Mean for Families
Any grandparents will tell you that random video chats or socially distanced, masked meetings on the back porch are not considered enough time for their grandchildren. Grandparents want – what they have longed for – all these long months – hugs and smiles that they can actually see in real life. Finally, the CDC says it can get it – with some caveats, of course.
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their guidelines for people who were fully vaccinated (and waited two weeks for full protection to take effect). Here is the most important takeaway for grandparents (or aunts or uncles) who have been vaccinated:
You can gather indoors with unvaccinated people from another family (for example, visit relatives who all live together) without masks, if only any of these people or someone with whom they live is at increased risk of serious COVID disease. nineteen.
So this is not the time to throw a big family barbecue with all second cousins, but if you have been vaccinated and you want to be together with unvaccinated people from one other household (and they are not high risk), you can do it. Inside! No masks! Personally, I expect my parents to knock on my door exactly 336 hours after the second injection.
If you do decide to invite an unvaccinated family or friends from a third home, the CDC says you should take the meeting outside and everyone should wear masks and stay physically at a distance because of the risk that unvaccinated group members pose to one. Another.
Unfortunately, this does not mean big changes for children in other areas of their life – they still have to wear masks, on the street and socially distance themselves to play with friends, and if they attend school in person, all the same restrictions will remain in place. … there. But they are allowed to hug their grandparents again, and this progress is worth celebrating.