News Brief: CDC issues new guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination.doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0001098208.24910.1fRoush, Karen PhD, RN, FNP-BCAJN, American Journal of Nursing
"High levels of population immunity due to vaccination and previous infection and the many available tools to protect the general population, and protect people at higher risk, allow us to focus on protecting people from serious illness from Covid-19." The new CDC guidelines say contact tracing...
(You can check the community transmission status of your own county at the CDC COVID Data Tracker website.) In some places, such as New York and California, wearing masks indoors is again mandatory. The CDC says, in its most recent update on the omicron variant, that vaccination is the ...
updated its mask guidance on Tuesday to recommend that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 resume wearing masks indoors in parts of the country with high levels of the virus. The public health agency also advised everyone in K-12 schools to wear masks regardless of vaccination ...
are more likely to become very sick and be hospitalized with COVID-19, CDC encourages healthcare providers to consider Paxlovid as a treatment option for those patients … regardless of vaccination status ... or histo...
U.S. Administers Over 420 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines - CDC More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares a Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination as part of a vaccine drive by the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians in Arleta, Los Angeles,...
Travelers to the United States will now only need a single bivalent COVID vaccine from either Pfizer or Moderna to enter the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The loosening of vaccination requirements for foreign travelers comes as many other countries...
Walensky also said that fully vaccinated people entering spaces where they don't know the vaccination status of others, like at concerts, need not worry and can still be there maskless. It's a significant leap from previous CDC guidance. The move comes shortly after the CDC said fully vaccina...
Many states arenow offering incentives for people to get the vaccine– but some officials remain concerned about ongoinghesitancy and lagging vaccinationrates among those eligible. CDC updates summer camp guidance On Friday, the CDCput out new Covid-19 guidelines for summer camps,saying staff and ...
Even as more guidelines come out from the CDC, Ogbuagu reminds people that it is not just your vaccination status that you need to keep in mind while you calculate the activities that can be added to your life. “Remember, the driver of this is if you’re in an area where there’s h...