There is an active movement to block “billions of dollars” worth of Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) funding for contact tracing and virus testing from the White House, according to a Washington Post article.
As hospital coronavirus data collection will no longer be a task for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, data in Kansas and Missouri suddenly went incomplete or missing.
A credible source from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the White House has repeatedly denied the agency to hold briefings about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The leading infectious and disease expert in the United States said that the prediction by some health experts about the COVID-19 Second Wave is not 'inevitable' if measures are striclty followed.
In most countries that reopened businesses recently, the main rule is "No Mask No Entry." But in this Texas bar, the regulation seems different-the opposite as customers wearing masks during the pandemic are refused of service.
The Texas Department of State Health Services recently said, it had been notified of some suspected cases of a mysterious illness called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or the MIS-C.
In a public government document, the U.S. government is now enabling long-term care facilities to choose not to provide data of COVID-19 deaths and cases that happened before May 6.
CDC recommends that bars and restaurants need to consider installing sneeze guards at their registration areas. Public transport workers should close each other row of their buses' seats.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned for a possible second wave and more lockdowns in the U.S. as the number of COVID-19 cases has reached to more than five million worldwide.
A recent report published by the California Health Department and the CDC claims the state's contract tracing program was ineffective in limiting the spread of the virus.
A pug was recently reported to be the first to get COVID and other pets were also reported to have contracted the virus from humans. Due to the discovery of humans to pet COVID-19 transmission, CDC had released new guidelines for human to pet interactions.
In a rush to reopen the U.S. economy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a $631 million fund to state and local governments to help with mass testing.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a White House briefing that somewhere between 25 and 50 percent of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients can still transmit the illness.
Researchers confirmed that 14-day quarantine period applied by most of the health officials across the globe is appropriate while the average incubation period is five days.
