Dr. Fauci says that the CDC will soon revise these guidelines
The infectious expert of the disease said new tips soon arrive.
Disease and Prevention Control Centers (CDC) announced on May 13 that this is no longer necessary forvaccinated people To carry masks or a social distance outside or inside, a decision of people across the United States has since been discussed. Almost immediately after the CDC announcement, questions abounded to new guidelines. Above the obviousWhy did this change go so fast?-Mania asked,TOhat on schools? OrHow will essential workers confirm that people are vaccinated?Then, May 16, Covid Councilor of the White HouseAnthony Fauci, MD, gave a material update on some of these answers.
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Talk toJohn Dickersonon CBSFace the nationMay 16, Fauci declared theCDC will soon revise its mask guidelines To further detail how to handle face coatings in certain situations. When Dickerson asked if it could have been a better way to approach the shocking change of mask guidelines, Fauci explained that the CDC will soon provide more guidance specific to the situation.
"What they will do now is to go out very quickly with individual guidance types. So people will say," Well, what about the workplace? And that? And that? "And I think it's going to be clarified quickly enough," said FaCi during the interview. He suspects the CDC's revised mask guiding principles will deal with questions to the public. "I imagine that in a few weeks. Only, you will begin to see a significant clarification of some of the really understandable and reasonable issues that people ask, "he said.
Fauci also stated that the new mask guidance is based on "the accumulation of projection data in the world's real efficiency of vaccines". He noted that vaccines have a chance to protect people from disease and recently published studies reveal that shots also prevent people with the safety of variants that currently circulate. "So, the accumulation of all these scientific facts, information and evidence brought the CDC to make this decision to say now when you are vaccinated, you do not need to wear a mask, not only outside But you do not have to wear it inside, "he added.
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Also on Sunday, May 16, Director CDCRochelle Walensky, MD, told CNNState of the Unionthat theseNew mask instructions were only the first step in a process of revision of the long mask guidelines. She added: "We, as a society, have the hard work to do, and the CDC does this work, to say that it means that it means in all the plethora of the parameters we have, in the custody environments children, in retail businesses, in schools, camps, traveling? What is this foundation, this science we lived on Thursday means for all these other parameters? "
By talking toChuck ToddtoMeet the pressThe same day, Walensky said, "We needed this foundation, this block of construction, in order toRevise all these guidelines, thousands of guidance pages, so we can take this information, this scientific information, as we open and we take these next steps. "
The first revised directives The CDC announced? Schools, where, because of the number of unvaccinated children traveling the rooms, theThe agency continues to recommend facials. "All schools should implement and implement prevention strategies and must prioritize the universal and correct use of masks and physical distancing", the agency posted on its website on May 15th.
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