Return to Normal: CDC Releases Initial Post-Vaccination Guidance Millions of fully vaccinated Americans who have been anxiously awaiting new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on what they can now do safely were given initial recommendations that apply only to private settings. March 10, 2021, 9am PST | Irvin Dawid Share "As of today [March 8], 59 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and approximately 31 million or 9.2 percent of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated, putting us on a strong path to eventually end this pandemic," stated Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at the beginning of her presentation during Monday morning's White House COVID-19 Response Team press briefing (view the 37-minute video on YouTube).