CDC: Travel Is Safe For Fully Vaccinated People

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has updated it’s travel guidance for fully vaccinated people that they can now safely travel as it’s deemed ‘low risk’. This means you do not need COVID-19 testing or post-travel self-quarantine for domestic travel. International travel is slightly more complicated with the following recommendation:

  • Fully vaccinated people can travel internationally without getting a COVID-19 test before travel unless it is required by the international destination.
  • Fully vaccinated people do not need to self-quarantine after returning to the United States, unless required by a state or local jurisdiction.
  • Fully vaccinated people must still have a negative COVID-19 test result before they board a flight to the United States and get a COVID-19 test 3 to 5 days after returning from international travel.
  • Fully vaccinated people should continue to take COVID-19 precautions while traveling internationally.

To be considered fully vaccinated it must at least be two weeks since the last recommended dose of the vaccine (e.g if it’s a two dose vaccine you need to wait two weeks after the second dose).

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Joseph Powers
Joseph Powers (@guest_1171454)
April 6, 2021 14:06

I came back for the comments and free beer.

sybloc
sybloc (@guest_1170842)
April 4, 2021 23:26

We are literally living through a human evolutionary period. Anti-truth, anti-science, anti-mask, and anti-vax dummies are going to be left behind. It’s maddening and fascinating.

Thank you Darwin.

#scienceFTW

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173256)
April 8, 2021 02:39

yeah ok bro

Raymond
Raymond (@guest_1170684)
April 4, 2021 12:45

Oh the very same agency that stopped a flu in the first world country swiftly?

Debit
Debit (@guest_1170404)
April 3, 2021 12:31

Vaccination status is not a legally protected status. I hope restaurants, hotels, airlines will use vaccination status to make more money in fees from the anti vaxxers under the guise of medical surcharge. This is a cash cow with bulging and magnificent cow boobs waiting to be milked.

Danny
Danny (@guest_1170565)
April 3, 2021 22:01

This would be kind of like the lottery, a regressive tax on the uninformed.

… but in this case I’m fine with it.

Fathiss
Fathiss (@guest_1170625)
April 4, 2021 06:43

I want magnificent cow boobs. I’d even trade my vaccine for them.

GengisKhan
GengisKhan (@guest_1170905)
April 5, 2021 09:25

You’re milking it now.

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173257)
April 8, 2021 02:41

Im sorry, but lefties literally were the anti-vaxers till 2020, shut up…

Vaiva Yarnell
Vaiva Yarnell (@guest_1170381)
April 3, 2021 11:50

CDC recommendations are a nice gesture but as someone else has said they aren’t legally binding or enforceable. The problem with the existing hamstrung policy is that it only regulates precautions taken during and after international air travel and not any other form of travel. This just means that domestic transmissions, especially from variants and from land travel, will spread unchecked like wildfire among the unvaccinated and unmasked from now until Labor Day, since not everyone eligible for a two-dose vaccine will be able or willing to get one by then.

As always, the greatest threat to Americans continues to be themselves.

Jon
Jon (@guest_1170554)
April 3, 2021 20:55

CDC recs make a difference to me as someone who has been working in the office and company policy is to follow those recs. This makes it a hell of a lot easier for me to travel now. Previously, if I stepped a foot over the Canadian border and came back, for instance, instant 2 weeks mandatory away from office on my own PTO.

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173258)
April 8, 2021 02:43

What threat would that be?

Midnight
Midnight (@guest_1170329)
April 3, 2021 09:26

Guaranteed that all the people who only comment on these types of posts are gonna come…. Or those with the alt account.

Billy Bob
Billy Bob (@guest_1170289)
April 3, 2021 04:27

So it’s definitely established that vaccinated people do not and cannot carry and/or spread the virus? If not, why is it safe for them to travel and not someone not vaccinated? If so, why do they still have to wear masks if they’re safe?

sdsearch
sdsearch (@guest_1170294)
April 3, 2021 05:14

It’s NEVER a “definitely not” or “definitely so” situation. It’s a best-known-for-now statistical thing. SOME people MAY still be able to carry and spread the virus after vaccination, but the risk is much lower than for non-vaccinated people. The risk is high enough that they still recommend vaccinated people wear masks in public, but the risk is low enough that they say it’s safe ENOUGH to travel (including the fact that there will be some situations, such as while eating or drinking on the plane, where you obviously won’t have a mask on at that instant).

Remember, masks are not just to protect, but to protect others. The recommendations are always based on a mix of that, but different recommendations may be based on a different mix of that. Obviously when you’re fully vaccinated, your risk of getting Covid are greatly reduced (but only your risk of getting SEVERE Covid is completely eliminated), but your risk of carrying and spreading Covid are reduced a bit less. So while masks need to be worn by unvaccinated people for more reasons, they still need to be worn in public when possible by vaccinated people for fewer reasons.

In my case, for example, I feared getting Covid enough that I only work KN95 masks on planes and never drank or ate on planes. After I’m “fully” vaccinated (ie, enough weeks after last dose), I will feel “safe enough” to wear a washable cloth mask on planes and to eat or drink on planes. To me, that’s an improvement enough to be happy about it.

Ferris
Ferris (@guest_1170326)
April 3, 2021 09:14

Maybe someday we will meet on the beach in 20 years. I’ll know it’s you cause you’ll still be wearing a cloth mask.

But for real man, those cloth masks don’t do a thing – there’s so much info on that.

sdsearch
sdsearch (@guest_1170336)
April 3, 2021 10:10

The point is, cloth masks protect others from you more than they protect you from others. They “do a thing” ONLY when everyone around you is ALSO wearing masks. While they may not stop Covid 100%, they stop MOST of the aerosol particles, and light Covid loads are way less likely to infect than heavy Covid loads.

You missed an implication in my post: After I’m “fully” vaccinated, it’ll likely take quite some time before the mask requirement on planes goes away. So what I’m saying is that I’ll not go “above and beyond” the mask requirement on planes by wearing a KN95 mask to protect myself better, I’ll just stick with the minimum requirement (once I’m “fully” vaccinated) to “just” wear a valid mask.

Why did you think I meant that I’d always be wearing a mask everywhere outdoors once all recommendations (let alone requirements) for wearing masks are gone??? This was a discussion about CDC recommendations, not about what do someday when all CDC recommendations about Covid are gone.

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173259)
April 8, 2021 02:45

No one cares about the mask rant…

Chad Buttkissplantsfood
Chad Buttkissplantsfood (@guest_1170312)
April 3, 2021 08:10

Because with the vaccine the infection rates drop substantially enough that medical facilities won’t be overwhelmed by covid. Basically only fats and olds die of covid anyways.

All of these “medical” recommendations are flavored by political calculus. Hence what is “medically advised” is not necessarily in any individual’s best individual health nterest but instead part of broader concerns. Hence the initial recommendation and urging of the CDC for people NOT to wear masks- obviously masks reduced the risk of contracting covid, but the public was urged not to in order to keep supplies high for medical staff. Yet it was NOT passed off as “please don’t because we need them” but rather “masks won’t stop the spread”.

Parts Unknown
Parts Unknown (@guest_1170774)
April 4, 2021 18:44

‘Fats & olds’ are the majority of the population.

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173260)
April 8, 2021 02:49

Good thing medical facilities haven’t been overwhelmed with COVID since NYC last year…

SU
SU (@guest_1170241)
April 2, 2021 23:24

aren’t #1 and #3 contradicting a bit?

Fully vaccinated people can travel internationally without getting a COVID-19 test before travel unless it is required by the international destination.
Fully vaccinated people must still have a negative COVID-19 test result before they board a flight to the United States and get a COVID-19 test 3 to 5 days after returning from international travel.

john m
john m (@guest_1170205)
April 2, 2021 22:09

Just waiting on the other 500 countries to do the same thing.

Igor
Igor (@guest_1170255)
April 3, 2021 00:21

Could you please share which planet (the one with 500 countries) so I can check their requirements? Fortunately here on earth we don’t have that many countries, they must be having a hard time with interestelar travelers from earth.

Billy Bob
Billy Bob (@guest_1170290)
April 3, 2021 04:29

Agreed!! We need a law that interstellar travelers like john m and others have to take a test on basic Earth knowledge before arriving.

john m
john m (@guest_1170298)
April 3, 2021 05:51

Okay. Okay I meant 396.2. Sorry, Mr.Wizard.

iahphx
iahphx (@guest_1170179)
April 2, 2021 21:30

Getting Covid travel advice from the CDC is about as useful as getting religious advice from an atheist. Their ignorance and politicization of science makes them no more qualified to give advice than 100 other “experts” on the web. The important stuff is LEGAL. Like if they didn’t require Covid testing for vaxed Americans returning to the USA. That would be logical, right? The vaccines are supposed to work, and they’re supposed to work as well overseas as after American travel. But the CDC isn’t logical, so their latest statement is meaningless.

Tim
Tim (@guest_1170214)
April 2, 2021 22:23

Yeah, if you keep re-reading the guidelines, they’re essentially saying the vaccines offer no advantage for travel.

By requiring a negative test for fully-vaxed pax before returning, they’re pretty much guaranteeing other countries will do the same.

They could have tl;dr by saying – vaxed or not you still need a negative test to enter or exit the country, and take precautions at all times.

Mike D
Mike D (@guest_1170610)
April 4, 2021 02:24

You should take religious advice from atheists. They generally know more about religion than theists.

NoMatches?
NoMatches? (@guest_1173261)
April 8, 2021 02:52

Bro no one cares that you think your superior cause your an atheist.