{"id":18322,"date":"2021-06-15T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18322"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:51:26","slug":"being-vaccinated-doesnt-mean-you-must-go-maskless-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18322","title":{"rendered":"Being Vaccinated Doesn\u2019t Mean You Must Go Maskless. Here\u2019s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, public health officials have repeatedly told us that masks save lives. They\u2019ve warned us to keep our distance from our neighbors, who\u2019ve morphed into disease vectors before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Now they are telling us that if we\u2019re vaccinated, we no longer need to wear masks or physically distance ourselves in most cases \u2014 even indoors. To many people, myself included, this seems hard to reconcile with so many long months of masking and physical distancing and sacrificing our social lives for fear of covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>What is an anxious, pandemic-weary (and wary) soul to do?\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/being-vaccinated-doesnt-mean-you-must-go-maskless-heres-why\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News) For more than a year, public health officials have repeatedly told us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18324,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322\/revisions\/18324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}