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Sep 19, 2024 · CDC offers separate, specific guidance for healthcare settings (COVID-19, flu, and general infection prevention and control) and Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 that is not currently changing.

May 11, 2023 · Learn about isolating when you have COVID-19. Stay at home for at least 5 days, isolate from others in your home, and wear a mask until day 10. COVID-19 isolation recommendations if you are sick.

Jul 12, 2024 · CDC’s Respiratory Virus Guidance provides strategies you can use to help protect yourself and others from health risks caused by COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses. These actions can help you lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission (spreading or catching COVID-19) and lower the risk of severe illness if you get sick.

Mar 1, 2024 · As part of the guidance, CDC provides active recommendations on core prevention steps and strategies: Staying up to date with vaccination to protect people against serious illness, hospitalization, and death. This includes flu, COVID-19, and RSV if eligible.

Mar 2, 2024 · CDC says you don't need to isolate if you have Covid-19. Doctor explains the change. People who test positive for Covid-19 no longer need to routinely stay away from others for at least...

Jun 24, 2024 · Using a lower cutoff of 10 new COVID-19 admissions per 100,000 population (7-day total) increased sensitivity to about 40% but reduces specificity. CDC continues to recommend that healthcare facilities institute facility-wide masking when masks are recommended in the community.

Aug 11, 2022 · Today, CDC is streamlining its COVID-19 guidance to help people better understand their risk, how to protect themselves and others, what actions to take if exposed to COVID-19, and what actions to take if they are sick or test positive for the virus.

Jan 7, 2025 · Everyone ages 6 months and older should get the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine. This includes people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, people who have had COVID-19, and people with long COVID. Protection from the COVID-19 vaccine decreases with time. Immunity after COVID-19 infection decreases with time.

On January 4, CDC updated COVID-19 isolation and quarantine recommendations with shorter isolation (for asymptomatic and mildly ill people) and quarantine periods of 5 days to focus on the period when a person is most infectious, followed by continued masking for an additional 5 days.