A Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that fully vaccinated people should be able to get back to normal life despite new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that urge a much more cautious approach.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost a lot of credibility during the Covid-19 pandemic by being late or wrong on testing, masks, vaccine allocation and school reopening,” said the op-ed’s author, Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Staying consistent with that pattern, this week — three months after the vaccine rollout began — the CDC finally started telling vaccinated people that they can have normal interactions with other vaccinated people — but only in highly limited circumstances. Given the impressive effectiveness of the vaccine, that should have been immediately obvious by applying scientific inference and common sense.”