Background for CDC’s Updated Respiratory Virus Guidance

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• Description:
  The 2023-2024 fall and winter virus season, four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, provided ongoing evidence of the changing face of respiratory diseases. COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses, including influenza and RSV. This reality enables CDC to provide updated guidance proportionate to the current level of risk COVID-19 poses while balancing other critical health and societal needs.
• Content Notes:
  Executive summary -- Transitioning from an emergency state -- Changing risk environment -- Unified, practical guidance -- Updated guidance on steps to prevent spread when you are sick is informed by numerous factors -- Ongoing vigilance and action -- Conclusion.
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control COVID-19/prevention & Control Influenza, Human/prevention & Control Respiratory Tract Infections/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:77039823be6404e46f1e075072b13a2311fd906a165a356a15200902daa2b2f9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/148839/cdc_148839_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.74 MB ]