Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has seen a resurgence of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since a number of airport workers tested positive for the coronavirus on July 20. Though many of the infected have been vaccinated, Shao Yiming, a researcher at Ch...
COVID-19 is not causing as many hospitalizations and deaths as it did in the first years of the pandemic. The change is an effort to streamline recommendations so they are similar to longstanding recommendations for flu and other respiratory viruses. Many people with a runny nose, cough, or ...
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The agency removed the recommendation that kids in different classrooms avoid mixing, a practice known as cohorting. It also removed advice that kids who are contacts of someone who tested positive for Covid-19 take regular tests -- and test negative -- to remain in the classroom, which was...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention has given the green light for children between 5 and 11 years old to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, embarking the U.S. on a major and long-awaited expansion of vaccinations.Dr. Rochelle Walensky gave final approval Tuesday evening after...
“We certainly are treating COVID just like we would treat flu or hand, foot and mouth” disease, said Colagrosso, CEO of A Place To Grow Children’s Center in Oak Hill. As for kids without symptoms who test positive for COVID? Most parents have stopped testing kid...
longer behind mutations of the virus. So technically, Americans are the least protected right now than we’ve been in four years. Seems like an odd time to do away with the recommended five-day period for people who test positive for COVID-19 to stay home, recuperate and not spread it....
While some talking heads claim that COVID-19 deaths are inflated due to any hospital-related deaths with patients testing positive for COVID marked down as COVID for the primary cause, there is a significant amount of indirect mortality caused by COVID. The World Health Organization reporte...
People who test positive for Covid-19 no longer need to routinely stay away from others for at least five days, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Friday. The change ends a strategy from earlier in the pandemic that experts said has been...
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