Fauci says Americans are “misinterpreting” CDC’s guidance on when vaccinated people should wear masks

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday said many Americans are “misinterpreting” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest guidance advising that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most cases.

In an interview with Axios, Fauci told the news organization’s co-founder Mike Allen that the new federal guidance was “an assurance to those who are vaccinated that they can feel safe,” whether they’re outdoors or indoors. “I think people are misinterpreting, thinking that this is a removal of a mask mandate for everyone — it’s not,” Fauci said. Fauci added that many Americans are not reading the guidance with a critical eye.

“People either read them quickly, or listen and hear half of it. They are feeling that we’re saying: ‘You don’t need the mask anymore.’ That’s not what the CDC said,” Fauci said. “They said: If you are vaccinated, you can feel safe — that you will not get infected either outdoors or indoors. It did not explicitly say that unvaccinated people should abandon their masks.” As of now, about 37 percent of the population have been fully vaccinated and at least 47 percent have received one dose, according to the CDC.

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