Federal health officials issued new guidance on Wednesday that greatly expands the pool of people considered at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus by changing the definition of who is a “close contact” of an infected individual. 美国联邦卫生官员本周三(10月21日)发布了新指导意见,该意见更改...
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...
WASHINGTON -- Criteria determining who's tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus has been expanded following the first possible case of community transmission in the U.S., CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, told lawmakers during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Thursday. But subcommittee ...
CDC’s definition of a person under investigation, or PUI, from the beginning has been broad, for travelers especially, because this was a disease that was being introduced from another part of the world. We have been looking for people with fever,...
The NFL, through its season-long, robust testing and contact tracing programs, found that transmission of the virus occurred in less than 15 minutes of cumulative interaction between individuals, the timeframe initially used in the CDC's definition of "close c...
The virus meets 2 of the 3 criteria for a pandemic, Messonnier said. It has caused illness resulting in death, and sustained person-to-person spread, but has not yet qualified as a pandemic because it lacks the definition for “worldwide spread.”2 The CDC’s goal is to continue detect...
4. Contact your doctor if you think you have COVID-19. If you have a fever, cough, and shortness of breath, contact your doctor at once. In the meantime,stay at home so you won’t infect others. 请根据上面的防疫措施, 写-份倡议书张贴到公告栏。要点包括:1. 倡议目...
Just one of the examples he gave was the agency’s go-ahead to use hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 even though there was no reliable evidence that it worked, and some indication that it could cause heart damage. The FDA later back-tracked andrevoked the authorization. ...
None of the corona viruses have ever been isolated so it’s impossible that “covid-19” exists! Ask this MD who attended MIT: andrewkaufmanmd.com We have to break with the mindset that there is this boogy-man virus called “covid”. In using that term we are simply reinforcing the ...
Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, CDC is shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to 5 days, if asymptomatic, followed by 5 days of wearing a mask when around others. The change is motivated by science demonstra...