WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shortened the isolation periods for health care workers infected with COVID-19, due to hospital staffing shortages driven by the surge in new cases and hospitalizations. The CDC revised its guideli...
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially voted Tuesday to recommend that health care workers and long-term care facility residents should be the first Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. "When a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized by FDA and recommended by ACIP, ...
A group of independent experts voted Tuesday that health care workers and long term care facilities should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Healthcare personnel are essential workers defined as paid and unpaid persons serving in healthcare settings who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients or infectious materials,” members of the CDC COVID-19 Response Team specify. They urge: “It is critical to make ever...
"If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test," the new CDC guidance states. However, the CDC's advice for healthcare workers states they "may need to get...
Some 30% of healthcare personnel who worked at the thousands of hospitals in the United States were still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of mid-September, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
December 19, 2024 1 day ago Health - bird flu A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu in the U.S. They’re in critical condition with severe respiratory symptoms BYMike Stobbe, Jonel Aleccia, and othersDecember 19, 2024 1 day ago Health - COVID-...
(CDC) don’t do enough to protect health care workers who are not directly involved in caring for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The CDC masking guidelines, which the group called out of date, also endanger non-health care workers who have close contact with people ...
CDC Eases COVID-19 Guidelines BySeyfarth Shaw LLPonAugust 16, 2022 Posted inCOVID-19,Health & Safety,Healthcare,OSHA Compliance,OSHA Enforcement,Workplace Policies and Processes ByAdam R. Young,Melissa A. Ortega,A. Scott Hecker,James L. Curtis,Brent I. Clark,Benjamin D. Briggs,Patrick D....
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.