While Centers for Disease Control data for the week ending February 3, 2024 reveals 21,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations, the number is 20 percent less than a year ago.
And also three times more than the lowest numbers in the United States last summer.
The CDC is expected to change its COVID-19 isolation guidance, as reported by CNN. For spring 2024, Americans will no longer have to isolate after a fever-free 24-hour period with mild or improving symptoms.
According to the Washington Post, four unnamed CDC officials said the change was discussed internally last week.
“It’s producing a lot of mild infection. Lots of people are not even testing,” he said. Americans who test positive are not necessarily following guidelines to isolate. “Once they feel better, they’re going back to their normal activities. They are not rigorously putting themselves in isolation for five days.”
COVID-19 continues to circulate states in America at high levels, but causing severe disease less frequently, according to the CDC.
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Rebecca Barnabi
