People should still wear masks after getting COVID vaccine

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, says that people who receive the vaccine for COVID-19 should “continue to wear masks.” He has also advised that those vaccinated from the disease will likely still need to refrain from indoor dining and going to theatres.

“There are things, even if you’re vaccinated, that you’re not going to be able to do in society,” Fauci said.

“There are certain aspects of being vaccinated and what that means to you personally and your own personal safety and that of your family versus what vaccines will allow you to do in society,” said Fauci, in response to a question posed by a journalist who asked him if he sees people being able to return to normal life after taking the vaccine.

“One relates to you yourself being vaccinated and the other relates to the number of people and the relative percentage of people in society that will be vaccinated because there will be things that you will not be able to do because the burden of virus in society will be very high, which it is right now, even though we’re going way down on the decline that [Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Dr. Walensky showed you, we are still at an unacceptably high baseline level, with the seven-day average being quite high,” said Fauci.