GNB Desk- If it has been at least two weeks since you received your last dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, congratulations! You are now considered “fully vaccinated.” You are armed with the best weapon against a virus that has killed more than 2.6 million people worldwide and upended our lives in unimaginable ways.
That is truly something worth celebrating moment for fully vaccinated!
But, it’s important to remember that the coronavirus is still spreading and the majority of Americans have yet to be vaccinated — so precautions continue to be necessary to protect yourself and the people around you, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released interim guidelines for fully vaccinated people against Covid-19.
According to new guidelines:
Fully vaccinated people can resume domestic travel and do not need to get tested before or after travel or self-quarantine after travel.
Fully vaccinated people do not need to get tested before leaving the United States (unless required by the destination) or self-quarantine after arriving back in the United States.
The CDC defines people who are fully vaccinated as those who are two weeks past their second dose of the Moderna and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines or two weeks past a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. There is growing evidence that people who are vaccinated don’t spread Covid-19, but scientists are still trying to understand how long vaccine protection lasts.
Fully vaccinated people can:
Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing
Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing
Refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic
Resume domestic travel and refrain from testing before or after travel or self-quarantine after travel.
Refrain from testing before leaving the United States for international travel (unless required by the destination) and refrain from self-quarantine after arriving back in the United States.
For now, fully vaccinated people should continue to:
Take precautions in public like wearing a well-fitted mask and physical distancing
Wear masks, practice physical distancing, and adhere to other prevention measures when visiting with unvaccinated people who are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease or who have an unvaccinated household member who is at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease
Wear masks, maintain physical distance, and practice other prevention measures when visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households
Avoid medium- and large-sized in-person gatherings
An OpenAI engineer is accused of concealing a recorder in an executive conference room. Prosecutors detailed surveillance footage and chatbot activity. OpenAI said it fired the employee and had no indication he improperly accessed or took model weights, source code or customer data.
Zelenskyy told NPR the Trump administration warned it could cut off intelligence-sharing unless Ukraine stops drone strikes on Russian oil refineries, a claim the White House did not address directly.
Treasury announced more than $1.21 billion in penalties against Bank of America, citing anti-money laundering and sanctions failures. The actions include a $1.2 billion FinCEN assessment, a $750 million OCC penalty and an $11.6 million OFAC settlement.
Pope Leo XIV is recovering at Rome's Gemelli hospital after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung. The Vatican said testing during the operation confirmed lung adenocarcinoma, and the operation was successful with no complications.
Kimberly Guilfoyle wrote on X that her time as U.S. ambassador to Greece may be ending and called the allegations against her false. The post comes as Trump and Rubio weigh whether to fire her, according to The Associated Press.
