People wear masks in Shanghai on November 30, 2023. In response to the heightened prevalence of respiratory illnesses during the winter, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration (CDC) released the latest guideline...
The CDC also said masks should be required of everyone inside K-12 schools while urging classrooms to return to full-time, in-person classes "with proper prevention strategies" in place. The agency recommended that all vaccinated people consider wearing a mask if someone in their household was ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its mask guidelines Tuesday for people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, citing new information about the ability of the delta variant to spread by those who have been vaccinated. The CDC is now recommending that vac...
These new CDC guidelines are a near-total reversal from when the agency walked back public mask mandates for vaccinated individuals in May. Currently, vaccination rates in the United States are approaching a 50% of all those eligible, per data curated by NPR. The agency never reversed its guid...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its mask guidelines Tuesday for people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, citing new information about the ability of the delta variant to spread by those who have been vaccinated. The CDC is now recommending that vaccina...
According to the AP, President Joe Biden believes that mask guidelines need to mirror the successful rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, a rollout that now includes children as young as 12 years old. Kevin Kavanagh, MD, a member of Infection Control Today®’s Editorial Advisory Board, recently ...
Though customers are free to continue wearing masks if they choose, passengers will not be required to mask up on many carriers for the first time in years. Apr 20, 2022 White House lays out new COVID plan, will stockpile tests and pills ...
Wash Your Cloth Face Mask It is vital that you maintain your face mask in order for it to remain as effective as possible. Without proper maintenance, a mask may not help slow the spread of COVID-19.CDC guidelinesstate that face coverings "should be routinely washed depending on frequency ...
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines last month for mask wearing, it announced that “less than 10 percent” of Covid-19 transmission was occurring outdoors. Media organizations repeated the statistic, and it quickly became a standard description of the frequenc...
The agency had previously suggested wearing a mask for up to 10 days after stopping isolation when indoors near other people. Much of thedatathe CDC had tracked on COVID-19 alongside other trends, like influenza and RSV, will also continue to be published. But specific benchmarks, which had...