CDC shortens 5-day COVID isolation, updates guidance on masks and testing in new 2024 recommendations

[ad_1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that it would wind down much of its remaining guidance specifically targeted at COVID-19, including an official end to a pandemic-era plea for Americans to stay home for five days after testing positive. The agency cited improvements in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths inflicted by…

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Syphilis cases rise sharply in women as CDC reports an

[ad_1] Nearly a quarter of syphilis cases in the U.S. were being diagnosed in women in 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, in a sign that the nation’s “alarming” epidemic of the sexually transmitted infection is increasingly spreading among heterosexual couples. The number of syphilis cases reported in women climbed 19.5%…

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