CDC guidance says some essential workers exposed to coronavirus can return to work
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new coronavirus guidance Wednesday saying some essential workers who have been exposed to COVID-19 but are not showing symptoms can return to work.
Each worker would need to take his or her temperature twice a day for signs of a fever and wear a face mask at work and out in public to prevent the spread of the virus, Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, said at Wednesday’s White House coronavirus briefing.
Redfield said the guidance was an effort to “really begin to get these critical workers back into the workforce so that we won’t have worker shortage in these critical industries,” including first responders, health-care workers, food supply workers and more.
The CDC also was encouraging employers to take their employees’ temperatures at the beginning of the workday and send home any workers who showed symptoms. In addition, officials said buildings should increase their air exchange and increase the frequency of how they clean common rooms and areas.
Employees still have been discouraged from congregating in break rooms, lunchrooms or any large gathering spaces, Redfield said.
The new considerations by the CDC signaled the slightest hope for a return to normalcy in the U.S. even as the death toll reached 13,929 and the country continues to grapple with 404,352 cases of the virus.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday that if the social distancing strategies implemented through the end of April are successful in slowing the curve and spread of coronavirus, the government could start to peel back some of the restrictions in the weeks to come.
“If, in fact, we are successful, it makes sense to at least plan what a re-entry into normality would look like,” Fauci told Fox News. “That doesn’t mean we’re going to do it right now, but it means we need to be prepared to ease into that.”
Even though “we’re starting to see some glimmers of hope,” the United States needs to “keep pushing on the mitigation strategies,” Fauci said, reiterating that tactics such as social distancing need to continue because “there is no doubt that that’s having a positive impact on the dynamics of the outbreak.”
Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that although the death toll is staggering in the U.S. — and third to only Italy and Spain with the highest number of deceased — “the deaths generally lag by a couple of weeks behind what’s fueling the outbreak, namely the number of new cases and the number of hospitalizations.”
Still, health officials, including Fauci, remain skeptical of reopening the country’s economy too soon, as recent studies suggest that some people who are infected with the virus do not show any symptoms, while others who have developed symptoms of COVID-19 and recovered may remain contagious.
Fauci told reporters during a press briefing Sunday that between 25 and 50 percent of infected Americans are not exhibiting symptoms of the virus.
“That is an estimate. I don’t have any scientific data yet to say that,” he added.
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Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
I don’t know if this is true, but I read that the packs of zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and antibiotic run around twenty dollars for a week’s dosage. I have no idea if that’s factual, but it was featured on some broadcast. That doesn’t sound like too much to risk.
If I even had negligible symptoms, I’m in for a twenty.
Where would these be available? Would my doctor prescribe this? If the border was open…could I get it in Mexico? I buy all my scripts from Mexico. Way cheaper.
You can probably get it in mexico. I recall that during the seventies, I knew some old boys that while “crossing across the border for some cultural exchange”, would stop at a pharmacia and pick up “lemon 714s”, no prescription necessary.
rambler
3 years ago
The CDC can take its “guidelines” and shove it! It’s not up to them anymore. They have betrayed the collective trust with their cr@p. Fauci needs to be drawn and quartered!
Looks like the CDC has forgotten, or simply intentionally chosen to ignore, the saying. “Haste makes waste”; in this case that waste will be in a great many American lives.
CreoleGumbo
3 years ago
It needs to end now! Not at the end of April. Maybe someone can ask Fauci why the death rates are dropping in Sweden, where none of this nonsense is taking place.
You are correct, another month or two of lockdown will make the great depression look like a picnic.
ed
3 years ago
Fauci told reporters during a press briefing Sunday that between 25 and 50 percent of infected Americans are not exhibiting symptoms of the virus.
“That is an estimate. I don’t have any scientific data yet to say that,” he added.
Did he have scientific data to gushingly express his love and admiration for Cankles Clinton ???
Mark
3 years ago
Fauci is just another rube shilling for the democrats and the UN WHO in my opinion. He needs to go away like the unions.
A person has a better chance of dying in a car wreck than from this virus. They need to stop watching all those virus movies and contagious disease movies.
John Acord
3 years ago
A well planned and manufactured panic created by the CCP to hide their imploding economy and to crush ours. Insiders made huge fortunes crashing the market. Many of them have huge investments in Disney, Comcast, AT&T who panicked the people and the government into ruining our economy. Trump needs to appoint a Presidential Commission to investigate and pull the curtain from those that created and hugely benefited from it.
tituspullo
3 years ago
“staggering” death toll in US? A complete and deliberate lie. More Americans have died in traffic accidents in 2020 than from this hysteria. This little twerp is evil
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