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My wife and I are in our 70s. We were fully vaccines about 3 months ago. Can we have someone in our home of the same age who has not been vaccinated?
Older adults have been recognized as a special population who have experienced severe complications and high death rates with COVID infection. 聽Being fully vaccinated is your best protection. Your friend who remains unvaccinated puts themselves at risk should they become infected. If the unvaccinated visitor has had no known recent contacts with infected persons and is asymptomatic then it may be acceptable to have the visitation. Outdoors is better than indoors. Indoors with good ventilation is better than indoors in a closed room with little or no ventilation.聽
There is no black or white answer; there are gradations of what constitutes 鈥渟afer practices鈥�, which are intended to help protect yourselves and also to stop transmission of the virus in the community. 聽For persons who are fully vaccinated it is definitely okay for you to gather indoors without masks with other people who are fully vaccinated. For some persons who are fully vaccinated, it is also okay to continue to be cautious--to wear a mask, stay physically distant from others in public places, avoid crowd and poorly ventilated indoor spaces, and wash your hands often. However, we want people to feel confidence in the protection afforded by being fully vaccinated and it is certainly okay to be outdoors without a mask and enjoy other liberties. See what the CDC says here.
Whereas, people who are not fully vaccinated must continue to wear a mask, stay physically distant from others in public places, avoid crowd and poorly ventilated indoor spaces, and wash hands.
