“Recent data indicate that California and Oregon, where isolation guidance looks more like CDC’s updated recommendations, are not experiencing higher COVID-19 emergency department visits or hospitalizations,” Jackson said. Changing the COVID isolation to mirror what’s recommended for flu and other...
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introducednew guidelinesthat reduce the amount of time people who test positive for Covid-19 but have no symptoms should spend in isolation from 10 days to five. As a result, it feels like everyone in the country is mad at the CDC...
The Western U.P. Health Department is changing its isolation and quarantine guidelines for people who have tested positive or been exposed to coronavirus to align with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocols. The CDC says that science now shows the majority of COVID-19...
Anthony Fauci says the CDC is aware of recent pushback to its changes to isolation guidelines and may soon alter them. David Mack • 2 years ago The White House Is Defending The CDC’s New 5-Day Coronavirus Isolation Guideline For Asymptomatic People “We are standing on the shoulders...
Why Are the Guidelines Changing? COVID-19 is not causing as many hospitalizations and deaths as it did in the first years of the pandemic. The change is an effort to streamline recommendations so they are similar to longstanding recommendations for flu and other respiratory viruses. Many people...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its guidelines for self-isolation to make it easier for those who have been exposed to someone withthe coronavirusto return to work if they are without symptoms. The public health agency, in conjunction withthe White House Coro...
Going to the Sources for Operational Questions: Both the CDC Isolation Guidelines and the CMS Surveyor Checklist Speak to Changing Gloves When Moving between PatientsA colleague whose responsibilities cover long-term care facilities in 28 states recently...Scherberger, John...
When guidelines change, the public also deserves clear and complete information about reasons for the new ones. In particular, thepress releaseaccompanying the CDC’s revised quarantine and isolation guidelines did not discuss any nonmedical contributions to the change, such as the need to ...
Policy, not disease, is causing excess death Is there corruption in the Covid19 counting? Safer at home — or is isolation causing the spread? Were hospitals overwhelmed? How do we stop the inevitable spread? Science? The racist theory of the exotic Wuhan wet market $...
Strategies for colleges to promote behaviors that reduce spread of the virus, including encouraging self-isolation of students, faculty or staff who are sick or have had exposure to the virus, promoting good hand hygiene and "respiratory etiquette," and recommending the wearing of cloth face coveri...