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News Articles: CDC coronavirus guidance

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid out new guidance for the national response to COVID-19 on Thursday.

With new guidance, CDC ends test-to-stay for schools and relaxes COVID rules

Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over.

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  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang

So you've got COVID. Here's what to do

Omicron is still spreading and it's crazy contagious. Experts share seven steps to deal with an infection, protect your household from getting sick and stay sane in the process.

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  • Suzette Lohmeyer
Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, who directs the St. Louis Department of Health, has turned to social media platforms this week and to local clergy and community groups — the sort of trusted messengers people turn to in times of uncertainty — to help get the right sort of early word out about the omicron variant. Conveying what's known and what's still to be learned are both important, she says.

Sending the right message about the omicron variant is tricky

Scientists may not know for a couple weeks yet how risky the new coronavirus variant will be to public health. But getting out front now about what is known helps dispel misinformation, they say.

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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Miranda Wicker with daughter, Emma, who will soon be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Here's some COVID news to be grateful for — kids 5 and up could get vaccinated by Thanksgiving

A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration is recommending that the agency issue emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 years old.

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Kindergartner Allyson Zavala joined with other students and school superintendent Austin Buetner for a class selfie in April inside teacher Alicia Pizzi's classroom at Maurice Sendak Elementary School in North Hollywood, Calif.

How To Keep Your Child Safe From The Delta Variant

Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.

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  • Pien Huang

Do You Need To Wear A Mask Indoors Where You Live? Check This Map

The CDC wants vaccinated people to wear masks indoors if the coronavirus is spreading widely where they live. Find out the level of virus transmission in your county.

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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Almost all of the COVID cases and deaths in Georgia in the last seven months have been among the unvaccinated.

Despite 'Breakthrough' COVID, Almost All Georgia Cases And Deaths Are Among Unvaccinated

New numbers from Georgia’s Department of Public Health show nearly all new COVID-19 cases and deaths in the state in the past seven months were among unvaccinated people. 

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