CDC Issues New COVID-19 Guidance After FDA Makes Change

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance to people with weak immune systems, saying they should take extra precautions after a key COVID-19 antibody treatmentโ€™s emergency use authorization was pulled by another federal agency.

The guidance again calls for immunocompromised individuals to wear masks and engage in social distancing, the CDCโ€™s revised guidance says, despite CDC-cited studies and data suggesting that masks provide little effectiveness in blocking the transmission of COVID-19. Some former federal officials have said that the six-foot social distancing rule adopted around the United States in early 2020 was arbitrary.

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDApulled its authorization of Evusheld, a combination antibody treatment that is given to people with weak immune systems. The agency said that it is not effective against most of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariants that are currently circulating around the United States, including the XBB subvariants and the BQ strain.

โ€œAmong persons with immunocompromise and their household members and close contacts, prevention measures including wearing a high-quality and well-fitting mask, maintaining physical distance from others (at least six feet), improving indoor ventilation, practicing frequent handwashing, and developing a care plan, should be considered in addition to receipt of a bivalent booster dose,โ€ said the CDC on Jan. 27.

The agency added that โ€œit is important to wear a mask and maintain physical distance from others if it is not possible to avoid crowded indoor spaces โ€ฆ simple interventions should be used to improve ventilation in buildings and decrease SARS-CoV-2 transmission by improving air flow.โ€ The agency also again recommended that immunocompromised people should get up-to-date COVID-19 vaccines.

The CDC advises that people who have a weak immune system and develop COVID-19-like symptoms to get tested for the virus. They should then receive an antiviral drug within five to seven days.

Byย Jack Phillips

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