Fully vaccinated individuals are now being advised to get a COVID test if they encounter infected people. Previous CDC recommendations said fully vaccinated people didn’t need to be tested after exposure to the virus unless they had symptoms.
The advice was released with new masking guidelines, including a recommendation that fully vaccinated people, if exposed to COVID, wear a mask in public indoor spaces and get tested three to five days later. They can stop wearing masks indoors if the results are negative, the guidelines say, but if the results are positive, they should isolate at home for 10 days.
The guidelines also ask that “vaccinated people in close contact with unvaccinated people, including children under 12, consider wearing masks in public indoor spaces whatever the transmission rates in the local community,” Drugs.com reported.
The agency also recommends universal masking in schools.
SOURCE: Drugs.com July 29, 2021