Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum
Bird flu testing Prior to Thursday’s guidance, hospitals generally sent batches of samples to labs for subtyping every few days. Faster testing also aims to help doctors identify how people became infected and provide their close contacts with testing and medicine more quickly, if needed, said N...
On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) repealed its previous guidance advising a 5-day isolation period for individuals testing positive for COVID-19 and issued consolidated guidance on “Preventing Spread of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 ...
Lastly, the Shah said the CDC was changing its PPE guidance for workers, MORE: US provides $72M to vaccine manufacturers to advance bird flu shot preparedness Although the risk of bird flu transmission from dairy cows to humans Is low, the CDC said there have b...
"The recommendation that we received from the CDC advisors was one that was a more restrained recommendation than they typically deploy for their for their vaccine guidance," Dr. Jason Schwartz, an associate professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health, told ABC...
A formal vote on the new guidance is expected in June by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The panel's votes are important because they influence ways that the federal government supports immunizations, ranging from how insurance companies are required to cover vaccines to ...
The sweeping directive to implement the order was issued by the CDC's Deputy Director for Global Health John Nkengasong in an email Monday, one official said, pending further guidance for when and how exceptions might be carved out. CDC staff assigned to work for the WHO are also being tol...
to draw up a new"pan-respiratory" approachblending together federal recommendations forCOVID-19, flu and RSV. Cohen blamed the emergence of the highly mutated variantBA.2.86last summer and fall, and the fast-spreading descendant it spawned,JN.1, for delaying the rollout of the new guidance. ...
New, proposed guidance being weighed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to routinely stay home for five days.
The guidance applies to common respiratory infections, the CDC said, and it shouldn’t take the place of specific guidance for pathogens that require special containment measures, such as the measles. Asked whether the change in guidelines might lead to more people being sick at work, particular...