On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) repealed its previous guidance advising a 5-day isolation period for individuals testing positive for COVID-19 and issued consolidated guidance on “Preventing Spread of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 W...
The CDC tweaked its guidance for people isolating with COVID-19, adding a recommendation for anyone who "wants to test" but stopping short of telling people that they should test.Ken Downey Jr.Infectious Disease News
Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday. The health agency changed its longstanding guidance, saying people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms...
updated criteria to guide covid-19 restrictions will be announced by the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention later this week or early next week, according to a cdc scientist involved in the process. currently, the agency's guidance on measures such as mask use and social ...
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control changed their guidance on how long a person should stay in isolation for people who have tested positive for the virus but are showing no symptoms.
The agency's new guidance also moves away from anearlier recommendationon using test results to decide when to stop isolation after an infection. "While COVID-19 at-home testing can give a rough approximation of whether a person is still infectious, at-home testing for other respiratory viruse...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, expanding the recommended time between the initial two vaccine doses to eight weeks for certain people. ...
The new guidance came after some states initiated similar changes, and the CDC noted that those states "have not seen increased hospitalizations or deaths related to COVID-19." Lower rates of COVID hospitalizations were among the reasons California shortened its five-day isolation recommendationin ...
Updated isolation guidance or not, few U.S. adults plan to wear a mask this fall and winter, according to anNFID surveyreleased Wednesday. Fewer than one in five (19%) said they’d mask up in a hospital, pharmacy, or doctor’s office, while nearly half (49%) said they’d only wea...
Some experts disagree on guidance change It’s reasonable to want to treat Covid-19 like other respiratory viruses, said Dr. Ellie Murray, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University’s School of Public Health, “but you can’t just discard the science.” “It’s not good...