Americans back to normal life?

As coronavirus cases and deaths decline across the US amid vaccination efforts, the director of the CDC said Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans could participate in most indoor activities without wearing a mask.

The CDC head, Rochelle Walensky, revealed the agency’s new mask guidance earlier this afternoon during a White House briefing on coronavirus.

“Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.”

Walensky also said: “We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy. Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.”

# The CDC head, Rochelle Walensky

On average, the US saw fewer than 40,000 new Covid-19 new confirmed cases daily over the past week, a 21% improvement compared to the week prior, Axios reported Thursday.

The number of US coronavirus deaths per day has not been this low since July 2020. Deaths peaked in mid-January, with daily averages totaling more than 3,400.

Meanwhile, nearly 45% of US adults are fully vaccinated, and almost 59% of US adults have received at least one dose of vaccine, per CDC data.

Hospitalizations have also dropped significantly across the US. Experts attribute the decline in deaths and hospitalizations to vaccination.

There have been 32,819,878 confirmed US coronavirus cases and 583,779 deaths, in the US, according to Johns Hopkins data.