As Colleges Prepare for Swine Flu, CDC Releases New GuidelinesBy Austin Wright
In its statement Thursday, the CDC said, "Updated guidelines, coordinated in conjunction with the White House Coronavirus Task Force, received appropriate attention, consultation and input from task force experts." It did not repeat Giroir's earlier assertion that "all doctors had signed off" or ...
“They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death – they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” (but did they ever work to prevent infection for any variant?) CNN Why vaccinated people dying from Covid-19 doesn’t mean the...
A school or day care's specific guidelines are consequential for working parents who must miss work if their child can’t go to school or child care. In October 2023, during simultaneous surges of COVID, respiratory syncytial virus and influenza, 104,000 a...
HEPA filters by design are resistant to the passage of air. Therefore, proper sealing of HEPA filters is essential to maintaining the integrity of the system. Any bypass of unfiltered air compromises the system. The CDC Guidelines address the need for adequate sealing in health care air purificat...
year 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 ...
Flu trends have also been accelerating nationwide, the agency said, with more expected increases into December. However,datafrom emergency rooms suggest influenza has yet to eclipse COVID-19 levels overall. "Even though those are both going up and we're at the peak of RSV, COVID is still ...
slight annoyance the one benefit of everyone wearing a mask was that no one got the cold or flu that usually spreads throughout the set. I personally plan on continuing to wear a mask at work when we are in large groups. I think this may become the way to keep us healthy at work....
“We think that options for remote work and paid leave opportunities are an important component of this,” Cohen said. She also said she’d like to see more employers offering Covid vaccines alongside flu shots in at-work clinics. “The bottom line is that when people follow these actionable...
"It’s never, in the U.S., become a clinically popular diagnosis to give because there’s no drugs approved for it. There’s no treatment guidelines for it," Clauw said The tally likely includes some patients with long COVID who were suffering from prolonged exhaustion, CDC officials said...