It is no longer necessary to isolate for five days after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a Friday statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new guidance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has not updated its isolation guidelines for COVID-19 infections, changes might be on ...

Experts aren't quite sure what's in store for us this cold, flu and COVID season. But with a new flu variant beginning to spread in the U.S. and low COVID vaccination rates, this may be a more severe ...

California and Oregon recently became the first states to break with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how long a person infected with Covid-19 should isolate, saying that people ...

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) The Centers for ...

People who test positive for Covid no longer need to isolate for five days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The CDC’s new guidance now matches public health advice for flu ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. A woman wearing a face mask walks through a NJ Transit turnstile at a subway station in New York City on Jan. 11, 2024. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. On March 1 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to make changes in COVID-isolation guidelines, possibly as soon as April. The changes, first reported by the Washington Post, will put an end to ...

While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has not updated its isolation guidelines for COVID-19 infections, changes might be on the horizon. The Washington Post reported the CDC is planning to do ...