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Centers for Disease Control Monday for those who have been fully vaccinated against Covid 19, giving them some leeway to resume more normal activity even while the coronavirus is still widely circulating, CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said individuals fully inoculated against Covid 19 can meet in small groups with other vaccinated people in private settings such as homes without wearing masks.

So what does this mean?

If you and a friend or you and a family member are both vaccinated, you can have dinner together.

You can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been to.

She defined fully vaccinated as those who are two weeks past their second Pfizer or Moderna shot, or Johnson and Johnson's single dose vaccine.

Wolinski also said fully vaccinated people can visit a single household of unvaccinated people without wearing masks if those not vaccinated are considered low risk.

Those fully vaccinated, however, should still wear masks when visiting unvaccinated people from multiple households, and they should continue with other precautions, such as avoiding medium and large sized in person gatherings.

I think it's important to realize as whereas we're working through this, that I'm still over 90% of the population has not yet vaccinated, and that is our responsibility to make sure in the context of 60,000 new cases a day, that we protect those who remain unvaccinated and remain vulnerable.

The recommendations come as about 30 million people, or 9.2% of the US population, have been fully vaccinated.

Millions more have had their first shot as vaccinations accelerate to a record 2.2 million shots per day cases and deaths continue to decline last week.

Despite the positive trends, health officials have warned that the country could see a resurgence in cases as more infectious variants of the virus has been found in nearly every state.