On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) repealed its previous guidance advising a 5-day isolation period for individuals testing positive for COVID-19 and issued consolidated guidance on “Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses W...
year to draw up a new"pan-respiratory" approachblending together federal recommendations forCOVID-19, flu and RSV. Cohen blamed the emergence of the highly mutated variantBA.2.86last summer and fall, and the fast-spreading descendant it spawned,JN.1, for delaying the rollout of the new ...
"Our goal here is to continue to protect those at risk for severe illness while also reassuring folks that these recommendations are simple, clear, easy to understand, and can be followed," said Dr. Mandy Cohen, the CDC’s director. However, some experts worry that the change may incre...
Compared with persons who received provider-administered results, persons with home-based results had 29% (95% CI 5%–47%) lower odds of following isolation recommendations.Moonan, Patrick K.Smith, Jonathan P.Borah, Brian F.Vohra, Divya
Last week, the agency loosened rules that previously called on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive. The new recommendations said workers could go back to work after seven days if they test negative and don’t have symptoms. And the agency said isolat...
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.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- With Omicron cases surging across the United States, recent recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seem quite confusing and risky, according to the American Medical Association (AMA). ...
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 ...
could see yet another shift on COVID isolation recommendations in the coming days. The Centers for Disease Control announced shorter isolation times just last week, but is now signaling it may adjust the rules again. Dr. Anthony Fauci said he plans on clarifying CDC guidelines for isolation and...
“Public health has to be realistic,” an infectious disease expert Michael T. Osterholm told the Washington Post. “In making recommendations to the public today, we have to try to get the most out of what people are willing to do. You can be absolutely right in the science and yet acc...