Black women are facing the largest barriers to returning to work, data shows, and have recovered 34% of jobs lost in the early months of the pandemic. They are among the most likely to work in low-paying service-sector jobs, which have been slow to rebound at a time when it is still...
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 adults reported missing work because of...
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 returnin...
Instead, the CDC recommends "returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are improving overall, and if a fever was present, it has been gone without use of a fever-reducing medication." This is the first time the agency has loosened its COVID isolation guidelines ...
On Nov. 3, the FDA released new guidelines for rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 thatacknowledged a high likelihood of incorrect results. The guidelines stated that health care professionals “should expect some [false-positive] results to occur.” These would occur even when “very accurate”...
6. Returning to Campus: Please note that the campus will reopen on [Insert Reopening Date, e.g., February 1, 2023]. All staff and students are expected to return to their regular duties and classes on this date unless otherwise informed. 7. Exams and Deadlines: Please be aware that any...
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. When they come back,...