View Comments Fully vaccinated Americans can now safely shed their masks and skip social distancing, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week, sparking a flurry of questions about how the new guidelines will be implemented at businesses, schools, and other places where fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people mingle. "We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday. "Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and...