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,...
As recently as February, a positiverapid testwould’ve meant five days of isolation, away from work,school, and/or other obligations that involve going out in public. Not anymore. In March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its COVID isolation guidelines based on ...
the State now follows the CDC’s guidance on isolation and precautions for individuals with COVID-19. Under the CDC’s previous isolation guidelines, New York employees testing positive for COVID-19 were therefore automatically entitled to sick ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 guidelines to align with guidance for other respiratory illnesses (e.g., RSV and the flu) (https://bit.ly/49uUKLL). The update comes as the United States faces fewer hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19....
Additionally, the CDC said that the new guidance gives the agency a unified approach in battling COVID-19, influenza, RSV and other respiratory viruses by having consistent guidelines for each illness. “The bottom line is that when people follow these actionable recommendations to avoid getting si...
“Without school-based testing, no one can enforce a five-day COVID policy,” he said via text message. Ridley School District in the Philadelphia suburbs was already using a policy similar to the new CDC guidelines, said Superintendent Lee Ann Wentzel. Stud...
48-hour neg. COVID test result required 00:0002:56 Last night, the Guangzhou CDC cautioned that people coming or returning to Guangzhou from other provinces must provide a negative COVID test report within 48 hours, im...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he plans on clarifying CDC guidelines for isolation and testing after a positive COVID test. The move comes after the federal agency shortened the recommended quarantine time from 10 days to five for asymptomatic patients, triggering some pushback. Health officials said they...
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. Ad This is the first time the agency has even considered loosening its COVID isolation gu...
New guidance issued 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. Instead, the CDC recommends "returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are impro...