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Centers for Disease Control eases COVID-19 guidance

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -March 1 marks four years since the first COVID-19 case was reported in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its guidance on respiratory illnesses with significantly less isolation time.

The CDC now suggests that anyone sick with respiratory illnesses quarantine until symptoms improve overall for at least 24 hours. Additionally, if symptoms include a fever, it disappears without using fever-reducing medicine.

Before this, anyone with a respiratory virus was recommended to stay home and away from others for five days. “After four years, we have enough herd immunity, enough people who have been immunized, enough people who have had it, whether they know it or not,” said Dr. James Saperstone of Community Care Pediatrics.

The Centers suggest returning to normal activities like work once you feel better while still being cautious. The next five days include being around clean air, wearing a mask, and keeping distance between yourself and others.

This guidance does not change what is already in place for healthcare settings. The CDC said it is important to protect those over the age of 65 and anyone with weakened immune systems.

“Be aware of the environment that you’re going back into. That it’s not a nursing home, that it’s not going to be populated with high-risk people,” stated Dr. Saperstone.

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