You are considered fully vaccinated 2 weeks after you get a second dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine or 2 weeks after you get a single dose of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. After you are fully vaccinated, you can more safely return to doing activities that you might not have been able to do because of the pandemic. You can also stop wearing a mask or social distancing in any setting, except where required by a rule or law. However, if you are in an area with a high number of new COVID-19 cases in the last week, the CDC recommends wearing a mask indoors in public and outdoors in crowded areas or when you are in close contact with unvaccinated people. If you are fully vaccinated and have a condition or are taking medications that weaken your immune system, you may need to keep wearing a mask.

You also will still be required to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other public transportation traveling to, within, or out of the U.S., as well as in places such as airports and train stations.

If you are traveling in the U.S., you don�t need to get tested before or after your trip or quarantine after you return. If you are traveling outside of the U.S., you don�t need to get tested before you leave the U.S. unless your destination requires it. You still need to show a negative test result or proof that you�ve recovered from COVID-19 in the past 3 months before boarding an international flight to the U.S. It�s also recommended that you get tested 3 to 5 days after international travel. However, quarantining isn't needed.

If you�ve been fully vaccinated and you�ve had close contact with someone who has the COVID-19 virus, get tested 3 to 5 days afterward. And if you are a resident or employee of a correctional or detention facility or a homeless shelter and are around someone who has COVID-19, you should still get tested even if you don�t have symptoms of COVID-19.