CDC Novel Coronavirus
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People with Certain Medical Conditions
Summary of Recent Changes Revisions were made on July 17, 2020 to reflect recent data supporting increased risk of severe COVID-19 among individuals with cancer. The listed underlying medical conditions…
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Contact Tracing Steps – Infographic
Contact Tracing: Do your part to keep your family, friends, and community safe. What you can expect to happen during contact tracing if you have been diagnosed with COVID-19. If…
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Summary Strategies to Optimize the Supply of PPE during Shortages
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving the CDC website. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. Linking…
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Considerations for Wearing Masks
CDC recommends that people wear masks in public settings and when around people who don’t live in your household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Masks may…
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Optimizing Supply of PPE and Other Equipment during Shortages
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Respiratory Protective Devices On February 4, 2020, the HHS Secretary declared that circumstances exist to justify the authorization of emergency use of additional respiratory protective…
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Infographic: Early Cases of MIS-C: Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in U.S. Children
The following infographic highlights key data from a CDC-authored study on MIS-Cexternal icon published in June 2020, in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was conducted using Overcoming…
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CDC’s Diagnostic Test for COVID-19 Only and Supplies
The CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)–PCR Diagnostic Panel detects the SARS-CoV-2 virus in upper and lower respiratory specimens. It is designed to be used with an…
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Maintaining Essential Services for Malaria in Low-Resource Countries
In 2018, there were about 228 million cases of malaria leading to an estimated 405,000 deaths worldwide; 94%of these deaths occurred in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region [1],…
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CDC calls on Americans to wear masks to prevent COVID-19 spread
Americans are increasingly adopting the use of cloth face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19, and the latest science may convince even more to do so. In an editorial…
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COVID-19 Graphics and Buttons
Copy the code below for this “Stay safe during travel – COVID-19” badge: (300×250)<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html?s_cid=bb-coronavirus-2019-ncov-NCIRD7" title="Stay safe during travel - COVID-19"><img src="http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/images/COVID-19-Global-Travel-Badge_300x250.jpg" style="width:300px; height:250px; border:0px;" alt="Stay safe during travel -…