By Shiv Sudhakar, MD, October 4, 2024 As your immunity wanes from previous infection and vaccination, the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 is to get the new COVID vaccine. There are three currently available — is one better than the …
CDC launches new way to measure trends of COVID, flu and more for 2024
By Alexander Tin, October 4, 2024 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new way for Americans to look up how high or low levels of viruses like COVID-19 and flu are in their local area for 2024. This year’s new “community …
3 Things to Know About XEC, the Latest COVID Strain
By Kathy Katella, October 1, 2024 A new highly transmissible coronavirus subvariant is starting to spread in the United States. Experts say it could become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain just in time for winter, when COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations tend to peak. …
How the CDC tests wastewater for COVID — and what it found in your state
By Matt Stiles and Way Mullery, September 29, 2024 New COVID-19 infections are no longer tracked or reported as closely as they were during the public health emergency. Instead, US officials now focus on testing the contents of Americans’ wastewater to keep …
Got COVID? Here are the new 2024 isolation guidelines
By Lindsey Leake, September 27, 2024 Two lines appear on the test card, 15 minutes after you’ve swabbed the depths of your nostrils and swirled the contents in a plastic tube. You’ve got COVID. As recently as February, a positive rapid …