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"It's a big day": vaccinated Americans no longer need indoor masks

2021-05-14T06:17:54.888Z


U.S. health officials on Thursday announced an update to their recommendations, exempting their compatriots vaccinated against


Across the Atlantic, we hide the mask.

The sign of an increasingly effective population vaccination campaign.

"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, small or large, without wearing a mask or respecting physical distancing," said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Thursday. (CDC), the country's main federal public health agency.

Now is not the time for party and confetti! The CDC recommends that vaccinated people continue to wear a mask in transport (planes, buses, trains ...) as well as in airports and train stations. Currently, about 35% of the American population, or more than 117 million people, have received the vaccine dose (s) needed (Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is given in a single injection, those from Pfizer and Moderna in two).

“We have all waited a long time for this moment when we could find some semblance of normality,” said Rochelle Walensky.

The decision was made in light of scientific studies that showed the vaccines were also effective against asymptomatic infections and circulating variants, she explained.

She also stressed the fact that the few people who fell ill despite having been vaccinated were still less contagious.

The White House welcomed on its Twitter account the new harbinger of better days for the United States.

“The finish line” is not far away for the US government.

“Take off your masks!

"

"I think this is a big step, a big day," Joe Biden said briefly from the presidential gardens, calling on all Americans who are not yet vaccinated to do so without delay.

“Take off your masks!

You have earned the right to do something Americans are known the world over for: greet others with a smile ”.

"I beg you: protect yourself until the finish line," he insisted.

"We all know how dreadful this virus is."

"We are going to get out of this, rebuild our economy," he continued.

“We will know joy again, we will smile again.

"

The tenant of the White House insisted on the spectacular progress made in recent months, which he said puts the United States in a special situation.

"If, tragically, the virus is raging in other countries, and if many of them, even wealthy, are faced with the slow pace of the vaccination campaign, the situation is very different here," he said. -He insists.

The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.



The choice is yours.

- President Biden (@POTUS) May 13, 2021

The authorities had started to recommend that all Americans, that is to say, including those who are not sick, to wear masks from the beginning of April 2020, that is to say more than a year ago.

They had already gradually started to relax their recommendations in recent weeks.

A relaxation that comes as the vaccination campaign approaches a new turning point.

Since Thursday, young Americans aged 12 to 15 can in fact be vaccinated against Covid-19, after the extension of the authorization of the vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech for their age group.

“The vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15 is safe, effective, convenient, fast and free,” said US President Joe Biden, urging parents to get their children immunized.

The United States remains the country in which the pandemic has claimed the most lives, with 583,685 deaths out of a global total of 3,333,603 since the end of December 2019.

Source: leparis

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