Closing in on the four years since much of the world seemed to shut down during the initialglobal onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped the five-day isolation guideline for the virus. According to the CDC, theguidelines for COVID-19are ...
The CDC has added a testing option to end COVID isolation. Infectious disease expert Dr. Celine Gounder joins "CBS Mornings" to explain why the change was made and how it could impact the pandemic.
BOSTON (AP) — Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and upended child care, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses. Gone are mandated isolation periods and masking. But will schools and child care...
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,...
Melissa Colagrosso's child care center in West Virginia dropped special guidelines for COVID about a year ago, she said. Now, they're the same as other illnesses: A child must be free of severe symptoms such as fever for at least 24 hours before returning to the center. ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 guidelines to align with guidance for other respiratory illnesses (e.g., RSV and the flu) (https://bit.ly/49uUKLL). The update comes as the United States faces fewer hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19....
The CDC no longer advises a five-day isolation period when you test positive for COVID, but recommends taking other precautions once your symptoms subside.
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. ...
Experts and patients testified in front of Congress about the need for action to treat the chronic effects of COVID, with the number of new cases now estimated to be in the millions.
"We saw during COVID that CDC’s structures, frankly, weren’t designed to take in information, digest it and disseminate it to the public at the speed necessary," said Jason Schwartz, a health policy researcher at the Yale School of Public Health. ...