On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a major update to pandemic guidelines. In the announcement, Director Rochelle Walensky said, “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing.” After more than a year of caution, this is wonderful news. The pandemic is effectively over, and the credit should go to the vaccines.
Since the pandemic has become yet another political issue, there has been some vaccine hesitancy. But 46.6% have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 35.8% are fully vaccinated. While other nations are ahead of the United States in the race to be fully vaccinated and close to herd immunity, the country is still doing well.
