Instead of a 14-day quarantine window, the CDC now recommends 10 days after the onset of symptoms and 24 hours after a fever has broken. “For most persons with COVID-19 illness, isolation and precautions can generally be discontinued 10 days after symptom onset and resolution of ...
Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Ronald Georges said the BVI will be adhering to the UK recommended guidelines of 10 days of isolation for COVID-19 infected persons. This is in considerable contrast to the five-day isolation period recommended by the United States-based Centers for Disease...
Last night, the Guangzhou CDC cautioned that people coming or returning to Guangzhou from other provinces must provide a negative COVID test report within 48 hours, immediately report to their community, hotel, or employer,...
Facing mounting pressure from progressive Democratic lawmakers and the spike of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration issued a new 60-day eviction moratorium to prevent millions of American renters from being forced to leave their homes. The original ban was p...
2021. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shortened isolation time for Americans infected with COVID-19 from 10 to 5 days, which has prompted public confusion and made health experts warn that the recommendation may lead to more COVID-19 spread and more infection ...
A nurse in personal protective equipment (PPE) cares for a patient in a Covid-19 intensive care unit on January 6, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. More than 80% of COVID-19 global deaths during the first two years of the pandemic were among people age...
Why we may never stop getting COVID: What we know about reinfections and immunity The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine operations told STAT’s Helen Branswell that, given the pace at which SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, more boosters are entirely possible. ...
In a race to fight COVID-19, the CDC accelerated its genetic sequencing workloads from days to minutes with Pure Storage.
Asprevious reports had predictedopens in a new tab or window, CDC officials also unveiled more nuanced COVID-19 quarantine recommendations for close contacts of COVID-19 cases. The agency offered two alternate quarantine periods: 7 days after a negative test or 10 days if the person is not ...
Cunningham, who manages a local store for a national restaurant chain, said her company requires her to take off 10 days if she gets COVID-19. And the school system where her son is insecond gradehas still been sending home COVID test kits for kids to use before returning to school aft...