CDC director tests positive for Covid-19 - CNN

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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the manager of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tested affirmative for Covid-19 connected Friday.

Walensky is experiencing mild symptoms and is up to day connected her Covid-19 vaccines, according to a connection released by the agency. Walensky received an updated Covid-19 booster successful September.

“Consistent with CDC guidelines, she is isolating astatine location and volition enactment successful her planned meetings virtually,” the bureau said. “CDC elder unit and adjacent contacts person been informed of her affirmative trial and are taking due enactment to show their health.”

Covid-19 cases person been falling arsenic the United States moves into fall. However, experts accidental cases whitethorn statesman to ascent arsenic they person during the past 2 pandemic winters – particularly arsenic respective caller coronavirus variants statesman to summation traction.

The CDC recommends that radical who person recently recovered from a Covid-19 corruption hold to get boosted astatine slightest until the unwellness has passed and a idiosyncratic is nary longer contagious. The CDC says a idiosyncratic “may see delaying your vaccine by 3 months from erstwhile your symptoms started.”

Getting infected tin enactment similar a booster, and studies person shown that radical person a comparatively debased hazard of getting sick again for astir 3 months aft they recover.

People whitethorn not privation to hold arsenic agelong arsenic 3 months if Covid-19 levels are precocious successful the assemblage oregon they person a reduced immune function, CNN has reported.

The CDC signed disconnected connected the updated booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna connected September 1.

Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated vaccine is simply a 30-microgram dose authorized for radical 12 and older. Moderna’s updated vaccine is simply a 50-microgram dose authorized for radical 18 and older.