The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ‘strongly’ advising Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19. The recommendation from the nation’s top public health agency on Thursday is some of the firmest guidance yet from the government on … Read more
A deadly Ebola-like disease found in Bolivia can spread from person to person, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Monday. Known as the Chapare virus, the infection causes high fevers, abdominal pain, bleeding gums, eye pain and skin rashes. A single case was reported in the Bolivian province for which … Read more
Wearing a mask DOES protect you – and those around you – from coronavirus, CDC now says in change to guidance that initially said face coverings protect others but not the wearer In new recommendations released on Tuesday, the CDC said wearing masks protects wearers from contracting COVI9-19 Previously, the agency said face coverings prevent … Read more
The first U.S. coronavirus test kit failed up to 33 percent of the time in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) final quality control tests in February, according to documents obtained by NPR. And the CDC sent the test kits out any way. What followed was widespread outcry over a short supply of … Read more
The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the US must immediately develop a testing strategy to find and isolate symptom-free coronavirus cases. In a tweet on Wednesday, Dr Robert Redfield described a meeting he and Dr Deborah Birx, another member of the White House coronavirus task force, had with Utah … Read more
People who have COVID-19 or are in quarantine after a potential exposure still have the right to vote – and should use it today if they haven’t already, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. Health officials posted new guidance on Sunday, clarifying the voting right, but asking anyone with COVID-19 or a … Read more
The youngest American adults are by far the worst at taking precautions to help reduce the spread of coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and PRevention (CDC) reports. An average of 20 percent of people between ages 18 and 29 said they don’t wear a face mask between May and June, and about 60 percent … Read more
Coronavirus cases are on the rise in nearly 80 percent of US states and territories, a top US official warned on Friday. ‘New #COVID19 cases are increasing,’ said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr Robert Redfield said via Twitter on Friday. Specifically, ‘79% of U.S. jurisdictions reported increasing cases as of October … Read more
American minorities have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19 – and the share of Hispanic people dying of the disease in the US is only growing, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests. In May, Hispanic Americans accounted for 16.3 percent of coronavirus deaths in the US. By August, that number … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said coronavirus vaccines may not initially be recommended for children when they become available. Children, who rarely develop severe COVID-19 symptoms or require hospitalization for the disease, have not yet been tested for any experimental jab. In the statement, posted on Wednesday, the CDC said that, up … Read more