"While COVID-19 at-home testing can give a rough approximation of whether a person is still infectious, at-home testing for other respiratory viruses is not widely available. CDC guidance throughout the pandemic recognized that repeated testing through the course of illness is not practical for ...
The Trump administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines that expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility to everyone age 65 and older as well as to those with comorbid conditions, like diabetes. The states’ focus on vaccinating health-care workers and nursing homes has created a bottlen...
Official case figures have not climbed substantially. However,test positivityrates suggest official tallies are steeply undercounting the spread of the virus. In places likenursing homes, where COVID-19 test results are more regularly reported to health authorities, federal data has tracked a steep r...
Attendees at indoor mega events will have to prove they are vaccinated or provide a negative COVID test in order to prevent the spread of disease that led to the pandemic and its lockdowns. The state health department is only recommending vaccine verification or a negative test for out...
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A group of independent experts voted Tuesday that health care workers and long term care facilities should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.
At least 103 residents have COVID-19, the health department said. New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer claims 68 people have died at the nursing home, which is in his district. In a Thursday morning interview withABC New York station WABC, Gottheimer said he "just got...
The statement said that everyone "whowantsa test does not necessarilyneeda test," but added that testing "may be considered for all close contacts ofconfirmed or probable COVID-19 patients." Limiting who should get a test "makes no sense whatsoever," Dr. Alison Galvani, an infectious disease...
Rates ofinfectionsof nursing home residents across this Midwestern region have also soared in recent weeks, higher than in most other parts of the country, approaching levels not seen since the peak of last winter's COVID-19 wave. "Remember we had a late summer wave of COVID. We came dow...
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