Modifications Can Improve Mask Efficacy for Reducing Exposure
Receiver’s exposure maximally reduced (>95 percent) when source and receiver were fitted with modified medical procedure masks
Diagnosis & Disease Information
CDC Recommends Three COVID-19 Tests for Americans Traveling Abroad
Tests recommended one to three days before the flight, three to five days after the flight, and one to three days before returning
CDC Warns of Multistate Listeria Outbreak
All 10 infected people were hospitalized; one death reported in Florida
CDC Broadens Definition of ‘Close Contact’ in Tracing COVID-19 Infections
Change will likely have biggest impact in group settings where people are in repeated contact with others
CDC Recommends Face Masks in All Public Transportation Settings
Agency urges transport operators to ‘refuse boarding to anyone not wearing a mask’
CDC: U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Reach 233,000 by End of October
And, dual coronavirus-flu vaccine to start human trials
CDC Now Acknowledges Airborne Transmission of COVID-19
Agency says it is especially true in enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation
CDC Recommends No Travel for Thanksgiving
Agency says it is best to restrict Thanksgiving dinners to people living in the same household
40th Annual CDC Report Presents Health of the United States
The report includes trends of data for past 40 years, with an increase in life expectancy and a drop in infant mortality.
Significant Progress Made in Containing Poliovirus Globally, says CDC
Following the eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 in 2015, trivalent vaccines were replaced with bivalent OPV.
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