CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for COVID-19 – under which the virus that essentially shut down the world four years ago will be treated more like the flu. The new guidelinesend guidance for Americans tostay home for five daysafter testing...
Ridley School District in the Philadelphia suburbs was already using a policy similar to the new CDC guidelines, said Superintendent Lee Ann Wentzel. Students who test positive for COVID must be fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours before returning to school. ...
On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) repealed its previous guidance advising a 5-day isolation period for individuals testing positive for COVID-19 and issued consolidated guidance on “Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses ...
As of Friday evening, three people have died in the U.S. due to the listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head deli meats. In July, Boar's Head recalled seven million pounds of deli meats after a liverwurst sample collected in Maryland tested positive for listeria. CBS News chief medical co...
“We certainly are treating COVID just like we would treat flu or hand, foot and mouth” disease, said Colagrosso, CEO of A Place To Grow Children’s Center in Oak Hill. As for kids without symptoms who test positive for COVID? Most parents have stopp...
But the state has dealt with school-related infections, including an outbreak at a high school wrestling tournament in December in which 38 attendees tested positive. CDC officials emphasized that in-person learning has not been identified as a substantial driver of coronavirus spread in U.S. ...
Why are fully vaccinated people testing positive for Covid? Oliver Barnes and John Burn-Murdoch in London July 23 2021 "About half of the 460 deaths in the country [England] linked to the Delta strain since February were people who were also fully immunised." Effectiveness of the Coronavirus...
Hours before Cruz made clear he will no longer wear a mask, Pfizer announced it will “likely” be necessary for Americans toget an annual booster shot, much like with the flu. “We’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19,” ...
Updated CDC guidelines, released in early April, say to regularly clean your home with soap or detergent. Disinfectants are likely unnecessary unless someone in your home is sick or has tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. There have been few reports of COVID-19 transmissio...
People who test positive for Covid-19 no longer need to routinely stay away from others for at least five days, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Friday. The change ends a strategy from earlier in the pandemic that experts said has been...