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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released adjustments Thursday as part of a broad effort to revise the agency’s COVID-19 guidelines.
“This direction recognizes that the pandemic is not over, but it also helps us succeed at a point where COVID-19 no longer severely interferes with our daily lives,” said Greta Massetti of the CDC in delivering the changes.
Among the biggest differences in the new recommendations: The CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendation will no longer differentiate whether other people are up to date on their vaccinations.
TESTING for COVID-19 will no longer be in maximum locations for others who do not have COVID symptoms.
And the CDC states that “to restrict social and economic impacts, quarantine of other exposed individuals is no longer recommended, regardless of vaccination status. “
Massetti told reporters Thursday that the recommendations were being reviewed to simplify the plethora of federal rules on COVID-19 into a “framework. “
“There are a lot of new features in our set of boards. What’s new is to present it as a framework and the way we send updates,” Massetti said.
“It’s about how other people can perceive how all those parts are compatible with each other. It starts when other people perceive their own private risk, a serious illness and that of their loved ones. “
The firm will also eliminate several COVID-19-specific recommendations for schools, such as the recommendation on “cohorting” or the “check to stay” strategy in which students exposed to the virus can remain in school as long as they continue to test negative.
“The biggest adjustments in school guidance are discovered in segments that would parallel adjustments in network orientation. So, for example, we don’t quarantine anymore. So, in school guidance, there is no longer a segment about quarantine,” Massetti said. he told reporters.
A summary of the adjustments released Thursday in the agency’s weekly morbidity and mortality report.
Detailed recommendations are expected to be updated and “simplified” in the coming days, adding for travel, nursing homes and other high-risk collection locations.
Nursing care and fitness services will continue to build on the agency’s previous network transmission framework, Massetti said, which is based on the number of REPORTED COVID-19 cases.
The rest of the agency’s rules will continue to be connected to CDC’s COVID-19 network benchmarks, which incorporate hospitalization figures based on whether counties are in “low,” “medium,” or “high” degrees of illness.
Massetti said the company continues to reconsider the functionality of those measures, for now, the company “has not achieved any effects that suggest a very extensive update is warranted at this time. “
CDC COVID-19 officials have telegraphed plans to revise and simplify the rules for months, acknowledging the growing fatigue with measures to curb the virus and the risk of conversion that represents more than two and a half years after the pandemic.
“We have the highest levels of immunity and vaccine-induced infections in the country, we have very effective prevention remedies and tools, we have particularly reduced the threat of medically significant illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths,” said Dr. Ian Williams, the agency’s director. Response to COVID-19, he said this week at an assembly of the agency’s external advisers.
Williams said the CDC has also taken steps in months to scale back a truly extensive portion of its independent pandemic response, integrating its COVID-19 activities into the agency’s normal teams.
The update comes as the latest wave of COVID-19 now appears to be declining, after hospitalization rates reached some of the worst levels seen since Omicron’s winter surge.
Deaths are still around 400 consistent with the day on average, well below some of the worst past wave peaks, but still at a point that makes it one of the leading causes of death in the country.
“It’s about orienting our approach to public fitness toward sustainable efforts to minimize the effect of COVID-19 on fitness and society,” Williams added.
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