CDC updates COVID-19 guidance for health care workers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its COVID-19 guidance for health care workers to factor in such considerations as symptom severity, immune status and test results, according to ADA News. Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2, released on Dec. 23, states that health care workers with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic and not immunocompromised can return to work after seven days with a negative test in the past 48 hours or 10 days with either no test results or a positive test result at day five to seven. Health care workers who have received all recommended COVID-19 vaccine doses, including a booster, can continue working after high-risk exposure though testing 24 hours and again five to seven days after exposure is recommended.