It centers around a sweeping new weekly metric called "acute respiratory illness." The metric's debut fulfills a goal laid out by agency officials months ago, aiming to measure the risk of COVID-19 alongside other germs that spread through the air on a single scale fr...
Updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccines have become available sooner than expected at Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The new COVID booster and flu shots are available at the health department’s clinic, 200 Maine St., starting today while supplies last. People interested...
FDA authorizes over-the-counter combined COVID-19 and flu test More In: COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Alexander Tin Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers the Biden administration's public health agencies, including the federal ...
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.
Flu and COVID symptoms are easily confused. A new home test—the first for flu—tells them apart in minutes
Sign up for Morning Rounds “It’s exciting we have these tools. We need to use them.” With Covid transmission surging and flu and RSV seasons on the near horizon, federal officials have been keen to project that this fall and winter’s respiratory disease season won’t...
Even if I test positive for covid, I am supposed to come to work with it unless I am unwell enough to stay home in bed with it. That is what our guidelines on land say, and they are no different at sea. Stay home (in cabin) if you are unwell. If there is a moral dilemma ...
Ben-Aderet adds that COVID vaccines don’t contain virus particles, let alone live virus: “All they have in them is a small fragment of mRNA, so there is just no way that that could lead to an infection.” Can I get the COVID and flu shots at the same time? Yes, per the CDC...
The center also conducted tests on sewage water. According to the COVID-19 nucleic acid density in sewage water, there was a COVID-19 peak around January 10 this year, which showed a downtrend until March 27. The densit...
Americans will soon be able to self-test at home to find out whether they have COVID-19, the flu or another common germ, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The first nonprescription test that can spot all three respiratory viral illnesses was approved Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Ad...