Department of Health adopting CDC guidance on safe behaviors post-vaccine

OLYMPIA—The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is adopting the guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding post-vaccine behavior.

If someone has been fully vaccinated, they can:

• Gather indoors with fully vaccinated people in private residences without wearing a mask and,

• Gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household in private residences (for example, visiting with relatives who all live together) without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

The...