However, some experts worry that the change may increase the risk of infection for those people who are more vulnerable to developing severe illness. 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...
The new CDC guidelines say contact tracing, another hallmark during the pandemic, should be limited to hospitals and certain high-risk group-living situations such as nursing homes, and the guidelines de-emphasize the use of regular testing to screen for Covid-19, except in certain high-risk ...
On Sept. 24, the CDC recommended that all eligible seniors and residents in long-term care facilities be given a COVID-19 vaccine booster. However, by the end of October, only about a quarter of fully vaccinated nursing home residents had received a booster, and the rate now stands at 51...
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) raised concerns about personal risks of acquiring infection during patient care. This led to more stringent infection prevention practices than CDC guidelines during a time of uncertainty about transmission and limited U.S. testing ...
“We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic,”CDCDirector Dr.Rochelle Walenskysaid during a White HouseCovid-19briefing. ...
Overall, Minnesotans reported symptoms of anxiety and depression about five percent less than the national average. This is pretty good, considering that was when we were in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. What About Wisconsin? Wisconsin did just as well, coming in at number four in this...
A group of independent experts voted Tuesday that health care personnel treating patients -- as well as workers and residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities -- should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine when one is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. ...
The statement said that everyone "who wants a test does not necessarily need a test," but added that testing "may be considered for all close contacts of confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients." Limiting who should get a test "makes no sense whatsoever," Dr. Alison Galvani, an infectious...
“If you are healthy,you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19,” the WHO guidelines read. And at first, the CDC agreed. After months of maintaining that healthy people didn’t need to wear masks in public to prevent the coronavirus, the country...
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 with ABC New York station WABC, Gottheimer said he "just go...