People who test positive for COVIDno longer need to isolate for five days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. TheCDC’s new guidancenow matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses: Stay home when you’re sick, but return to school or work on...
At one point, the CDC created a 10-day isolation period for those who test positive. Eventually that was dropped to a 5-day period, andnow will be eliminated altogether.The new policy would put a positive COVID test inline with someone who has the common flu, RSV, or a bad cold. Ess...
First things first, those who believe they have been in contact with someone who has COVID and are unvaccinated should quarantine. Those who test positive, regardless of vaccination status, must isolate, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Here's the breakdown:...
But the majority of big-city districts around the country still have asked parents to isolate children for at least five days before returning to school. Some, including Boston and Atlanta, have required students to mask for another five days and report posit...
. 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, they must mask for five days. Wentzel said the district is now considering dropping the masking requirement because of the new CDC guidance....
Currently, the agency's guidance on measures such asmask useandsocial distancingis based on the number of new cases per 100,000 people and the percent of positive tests in the past seven days. Guidance will soon be based on COVID-19 levels in an individual county, the CDC scientist told...
The CDC no longer advises a five-day isolation period when you test positive for COVID, but recommends taking other precautions once your symptoms subside.
"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...
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.
That’s a reversal from the guidance that the administration released on Monday, in which it recommended that people who had been in close contact with someone positive for COVID-19 not be tested if they were asymptomatic. The resulting controversy saw numerous public health experts and organizati...