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U.S. CDC Lifts COVID 'Do Not Travel' Recommendations on About 90 Countries More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Air travellers wearing protective face masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, walk at JetBlue Terminal 5 at JFK International airport in New York,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine advisers voted unanimously Thursday to expand their recommendations for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to virtually all ages of children, adding the first alternative to Pfizer's shots for millions of adolescents and school-age kids.On F...
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, said the new recommendations make sense, now that the urgency of the pandemic has passed. "Public health has to be realistic," he told theWashington Postrecently. "In making recommendations to the public today, we h...
The nation's top public health agency relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines Thursday, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
recommendations and lack of evidence," said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, said in an email to CNN. Topol has been critical of the CDC for months, saying it wasn't strict enough with its isolation policies for people with Covid. ...
But it appears that some states had so few concerns about the Pfizer vaccine that they began offering it to patients before ACIP had issued its recommendations. The Delaware Division of Public Health opened four COVID-19-specific clinics on Wednesday and said it would start administering the Pfiz...
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"I feel like we should just do away with anything that treats COVID differently or keep all of the precautions," she said. The public education system has long held varying policies on COVID. During the 2021-2022 school year, only 18 states followed CDC recommendations for mask-wearing in...
A 14-day quarantine period is still "the best way to reduce risk",said Henry Walke, incident manager for the CDC's COVID-19 response. The agency considers the shorter periods to be alternatives. The Wall Street Journal reported on Nov.24 that the CDC was completing recommen...