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  2. CDC Could Cut COVID Isolation Time: What It Could Mean - WebMD

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    The CDC is reportedly going to cut its COVID-19 isolation recommendations down from 5 days to 24 hours starting in April. The agency appears to be walking a fine line between reducing COVID ...

  3. CDC Reports COVID-19 Subvariant JN.1 Spreading Quickly - WebMD

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    As of Dec. 9, about 18% of adults had received the latest version, the CDC reports. That’s similar to last year’s figure. In the past four weeks, COVID-19 hospitalizations rose 51%, the CDC says.

  4. COVID-19 Hospitalizations Dropping, CDC Reports - WebMD

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    Oct. 2, 2023 -- Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have dropped after about two months of increases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported, though COVID-related deaths continue to go up.

  5. How Long Does the Omicron Variant Last on Surfaces? - Healthline

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    The following is the amount of time other variants were found to last on skin: Original: 8.6 hours. Alpha: 19.6 hours. Beta: 19.1 hours. Delta: 16.8 hours. Gamma: 11 hours. The data suggests that ...

  6. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant - Wikipedia

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    Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. [10] [11] It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. [12]

  7. Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The ...

  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Wikipedia

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    United States Department of Health and Human Services. Website. www .cdc .gov. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

  9. 10 Percent of COVID Tests Are Positive As ... - WebMD

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    Oct. 16, 2023 – Severe cases of COVID-19 that require hospitalization continue to decline in the U.S., according to the CDC’s latest update on the pandemic. Hospitalizations dipped 8% for the ...