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The last time the CDC changed its COVID-19 isolation recommendations was in 2021, when it reduced the isolation time for infected people from 10 days to five days. (Getty Images) (whyframestudio ...
Data collected by the CDC shows that six Midwestern states making up Region 5 had the biggest increase (2.1%) in positive COVID-19 cases from July 28 to Aug. 3, 2024. The data was posted on Aug ...
Around this time four years ago, we started hearing about a "mysterious" new virus called COVID-19. The upper respiratory disease would change life as we knew it, becoming a global pandemic.
The CDC’s new guidance now matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses: Stay home when you’re sick, but return to school or work once you’re feeling better and you ...
On January 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had found at least 52 confirmed cases of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant: 26 in California, 22 in Florida, two in Colorado, and one each in Georgia and New York. The agency also stressed that there could already be more cases in the country.
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas . [ 3 ]
The White House plan recommended that "non-essential travel can resume" after 28 continuous days of decreasing COVID-19 cases, whereas the CDC plan stated that resuming non-essential travel will only be under "consideration" after 42 consecutive days of decreasing COVID-19 cases. The CDC plan recognized that COVID-19 cases would likely surge ...
CDC director Rochelle Walensky addressed criticism about the CDC's credibility in the wake of confusion over its changing isolation guidance for people infected with COVID-19.