NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms are mild and improving and it’s … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending Americans stay home from work or school for five days after testing positive for COVID-19, a major shift in policy that comes as much of the country has moved on from the height of the pandemic. The new guidance aligns COVID recommendations with other respiratory … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Food and Drug Administration have started investigations into an E. coli outbreak in several states, related to raw cheddar cheese according to a report in USA Today. According to the state officials and federal agencies, the source of the outbreak is possibly Raw Cheddar cheese by … Read more
COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than those who have not been infected, according to a new study published by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers used electronic medical records from the University of Washington for their analysis and followed more than 4,500 adults … Read more
The updated COVID-19 vaccines administered this fall and winter were found to be 54 percent effective at preventing symptomatic infections among adults, according to an early analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with researchers finding that the shot was protective against the dominant JN.1 subvariant. Through the CDC’s Increasing Community … Read more
Syphilis rates have continued to surge, reaching levels the nation hasn’t seen since 1950, according to new federal data released Tuesday. According to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), syphilis cases increased 17 percent in the past year and 80 percent in the past five years. With Congress set to … Read more
The CDC said the JN.1 was now the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, accounting for nearly 50 percent of active cases in the country. Representative Image COVID-19 Update: The JN.1 variant accounts for nearly 50 percent of active COVID-19 cases in the United States, making the new highly transmissible variants as the most … Read more
The director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told people to stay home if they are sick in a holiday message Friday. “We continue to see a lot of respiratory illness right now. Flu, COVID and RSV are spreading in most of the country,” Mandy Cohen said in a Friday video posted to the … Read more
Nearly 60 percent of Americans living in the Midwest and surrounding states say they will not get the new COVID-19 vaccine this year, according to a survey from Emerson College Polling. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an updated new COVID-19 booster in September, targeting currently circulating variants of the disease. But more … Read more
