The CDC's new county-level COVID risk map. The CDC is also offering acolor-coded map— with counties designated as orange, yellow or green — to help guide local officials and residents. In green counties, local officials can drop any indoor masking rules. Yellow means people at high risk...
Much of thedatathe CDC had tracked on COVID-19 alongside other trends, like influenza and RSV, will also continue to be published. But specific benchmarks, which had guided county-by-county recommendations on when people should wear masks to avoid getting sick, are now being discarded. "Thi...
County risk levels are determined by looking at hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area, according to the CDCwebsite. The agency recommends a variety of measures to protect local residents, depending on risk level. ...
U.S. CDC Advisers Recommend COVID Booster for Children 5-11 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A girl receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier (Reuters) - A panel of advisers to the U....
Health Department: Washtenaw County now at ‘medium’ COVID risk levelRead full article: Health Department: Washtenaw County now at ‘medium’ COVID risk level At this level, the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends masking for those who are immunocompromised or at hig...
U.S. Administers 353.9 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines - CDC More Reuters Olga Orduna, 46, receives her second coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a back-to-school clinic in South Gate, Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 12, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (Reu...
The CDC issued an update to its COVID-19 travel health notice that classifies the risks of travel. On Thursday, the agency moved cruise ships from "Level 3: High: to "Level 4: Very High." Previously, the CDC had signaled it was OK for vaccinated travelers to cruise, so long as they...
The CDC has a map that can show you the COVID risk in your area on its website: CDC Current hotspots for the virus include Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, per Fortune. Is the Delta variant already in the U.S.?
Union County, Oregon, for example, is on that map. It’s got a population of 25,000 people. It’s small, it’s pretty, people who live there think it’s nice. The CDC calls it dangerous. That’s strange, Union County hasn’t had a single COVID death in nearly two months. But...
“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, said during a press briefing at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. Outside of China, there are 4,...