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CDC Guidance for Vaccinated People: What Are They Thinking?

March 8, 2021

Thank God (and Moderna) that I’ve finally gotten my two COVID-19 vaccinations and waited two weeks to become “fully vaccinated”!  Now I can resume a normal life, free from fears that I will contract the disease or pass it along to others.  Right?

Well…not really.

The CDC today released its “Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People.”  Here’s what I can do:

  • I can visit with other fully vaccinated people or low-risk unvaccinated people “from a single household” without face masks or social distancing.
  • I don’t have to be tested and quarantined if I am exposed to someone with COVID and don’t have COVID-19 symptoms.

Here’s what I still can’t do:

  • Throw away my masks.  I still have to wear a mask and social distance in public.
  • Visit with unvaccinated people from “multiple households” without masks and social distancing unless I’m sure they’ve all been vaccinated.  That knocks out our traditional multi-family Easter brunch, since some of them are too young to get vaccines.
  • Visit with older friends or other “increased risk” people who haven’t been vaccinated without masks and social distancing.  I guess I’ll have to ask all my friends 65 and over to show me their vaccination cards before I can untie my mask.
  • Attend gatherings that are “medium” or “large-sized.”  I assume this includes theaters, concerts, museums, sporting events, my gym, restaurants, and church.
  • Travel.  As the notice says, “CDC is not updating our travel recommendations and requirements at this time,” and their guidance says, “CDC recommends that you do not travel.”  In addition, if I travel internationally, I still have to get a negative COVID-19 test before I fly back to the U.S., even if I don’t have any symptoms. (This, of course, contradicts their statement that I don’t have to get tested if I am asymptomatic.)

This is a great illustration of why the Biden administration can’t allow the CDC to govern the country.  This “guidance” would keep our travel, leisure, and entertainment sectors – and our lives – locked down until we’ve all been vaccinated or COVID-19 has disappeared completely.  By that time, we would have blood in the streets.  Fortunately, most of the states are taking a different path.

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David G. Anderson, Ph.D., Executive Director

David G. Anderson, IAHC's Executive Director, has been a partner and managing director of three health care strategy consulting firms - APM, CSC Healthcare (which acquired APM), and BDC Advisors, LLC, where he serves as Director of Planning and Development.  Over 25 years, Dave has consulted with many of the largest health systems, academic medical centers, health insurers, and medical groups in the country, providing expertise in strategic planning, program development, organizational transformation, mergers, acquisitions, and a host of other top-management issues.  He has also been Chief Operating Officer of a health care services provider, a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company.   While at McKinsey, he managed the research for the business best-seller In Search of Excellence, by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman.  Dave holds MBA and PhD degrees from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BS from Yale University.  He is the author of numerous papers on strategic planning, product development, cost management, ambulatory care, organizational development, and other topics of concern to health care executives.

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