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May 14, 2021 "If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask". In the late (Italian) evening of yesterday, through the mouth of the President of the United States Joe Biden, the news that many in the United States were eagerly awaiting.



According to the new guidelines of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in fact, people vaccinated against Covid are no longer required to wear masks outdoors, even in a crowd, and in most cases indoors.



Wearing personal protection remains recommended in public transport, such as buses or planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. But these new measures allow for the reopening of offices and schools, also eliminating the need for social distancing for those who are fully vaccinated.



"Today is a big day for America, a milestone," Biden said, once again urging citizens: "Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you are," the White House tenant said. "We have come this far, protect yourself to the finish". 



The massive vaccination campaign has allowed the United States to hit its lowest level of Covid cases since September 2020. The number of deaths has been at its lowest since last April and the positive test rate is at its lowest since the beginning of the pandemic. About 154 million Americans, or more than 46% of the population, have received at least one dose of the vaccine and more than 117 million are fully immunized.



Turned in the US, away the mask for the vaccinated


Turned out, therefore, in the United States: fully vaccinated people will be able to stop wearing the mask and to respect the rule of social distancing. This both outdoors and indoors. This was announced yesterday by the leaders of the CDC, the highest federal health authority, who presented the new guidelines in the light of a vaccination campaign that has now covered at least 60% of the adult population with one dose and which has been extended in the last few hours to adolescents from 12 years of age. 



The first opening towards a relaxation of the obligation to wear the mask occurred a few weeks ago, when President Joe Biden wanted to keep the promise made to the Americans on the day of his inauguration in the White House: wear the mask for the next hundred days. and you will see that the situation will have drastically changed. After all, there was to be convinced all the skeptics, the people of the no masks who had a fixed point of reference in the former president Donald Trump. "The mask is neither left nor right", Biden insisted, "is used to save lives". An appeal to avoid excessive politicization around the use of the first protection against the virus.   



Now the US health authorities, as announced in recent days by virologist Anthony Fauci, have decided to accelerate, convinced that this will serve to give a further boost to the vaccination campaign, encouraging more and more people to get immunized. After all, the goal set is to have 70% of the American population with at least one inoculated dose and 160 million people fully vaccinated by next July 4th, Independence Day, s celta as a symbolic date of rebirth and return to normality. A goal within reach, given that in the last few hours the doses administered since last January 20 have exceeded 250 million.   



Fauci also explained how the use of the mask could become "seasonal", to avoid the spread not only of Covid, but of all flu viruses. After all, the last few months have shown how the virus of the common flu is in fact shared, also thanks to respect for social distancing. Even the latter, according to the new guidelines of the CDC, however, goes to the attic for the vaccinated. The only case in which you will have to continue to use the mask, Fauci said, is in the presence of a real gathering.