Lexology – “Just over two weeks after it relaxed its protocols for fully-vaccinated individuals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now issued revised guidance essentially permitting those individuals to resume their pre-pandemic lifestyle, subject to any applicable and differing state and local mandates. Consistent with prior iterations of this guidance, the CDC asserts that “You will still need to follow guidance at your workplace.” So what can employers do now? Well, we’ve now updated our last blog post on this topic. Newest Version of the Rules. The CDC now says that fully vaccinated individuals (meaning at least two weeks after the second/only required shot for the vaccine in question) may:

• Resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart from others (apparently whether vaccinated or not), except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.
• Refrain from testing before or after domestic travel or self-quarantine afterwards.
• Refrain from testing before leaving the United States for international travel (unless required by the destination) and refrain from self-quarantine after arriving back in the U.S. Testing or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 before returning to the U.S. is still required, and is recommended 3-5 days after returning from travel.
• Refrain from quarantine or testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic.
• Refrain from routine screening testing if asymptomatic and feasible…”