You need to do a risk assessment. Here's how.
 | By Alexandra Sifferlin Senior Staff Editor, Opinion |
In the meantime, Americans are navigating a new phase of the pandemic during which large numbers of people are vaccinated but many others are still waiting their turn in line. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for what people can do when fully vaccinated, but the advice doesn't take individual circumstances into account. |
To help you make decisions about what you should and shouldn't do after getting the Covid-19 vaccine, the science journalist Tara Haelle spoke to infectious disease experts to develop a framework for navigating post-vaccination life. She's created a quiz that runs through the questions to ask yourself when you're considering any given activity. |
There are some crucial factors to keep in mind, like whether an activity is indoors or outdoors and who will be present. But ultimately your final decision, as Haelle writes, will be a personal one that accounts for your own threshold for risk. |
A single vaccinated person living alone, for example, may feel more comfortable with taking some higher risks. Someone who lives with an unvaccinated family member with serious health conditions may prefer to skip events, even if the risk of exposure is pretty low. |
A year into the pandemic, you might be very used to making these kinds of risk-benefit calculations. But having this science-backed framework to reference can hopefully help you feel more confident in your decisions. |
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