Do I request to get tested for COVID-19 if I'm vaccinated? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Do I request to get tested for COVID-19 if I'm vaccinated? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Do I request to get tested for COVID-19 if I’m vaccinated?

Yes, if you’ve been astir idiosyncratic who has COVID-19.

The latest guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says radical who are afloat vaccinated should get tested 3 to 5 days aft a imaginable exposure, adjacent if they don’t person symptoms.

That alteration comes 2 months aft the bureau eased its archetypal investigating guidance. In May, the CDC said vaccinated radical look precise small hazard of superior unwellness and don’t request to beryllium tested successful astir cases, adjacent if exposed to idiosyncratic who was sick. The reasoning was that vaccinated radical besides weren't apt to dispersed it to others.

But the bureau says it's reversing that guidance due to the fact that of the much contagious delta variant, which present accounts for astir COVID-19 infections.

The COVID-19 vaccines are inactive precise bully astatine protecting radical from getting earnestly ill, but the CDC says caller information shows vaccinated radical infected with the delta variant could dispersed it to others.

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Doctors, nurses and different wellness attraction workers should consult with their employers, immoderate of whom whitethorn necessitate regular investigating for their staff. People moving successful prisons and stateless shelters are besides mostly taxable to stepped-up investigating requirements.

U.S. citizens returning from overseas inactive person to contiguous a antagonistic COVID-19 trial earlier boarding their flights home, careless of their vaccination status. Anyone who tests affirmative for COVID-19 should inactive isolate for 10 days, the CDC says.

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