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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention streamlined its guidance Thursday for keeping COVID-19 in check, de-emphasizing social distancing, nixing screening tests for those without symptoms and not recommending people who aren’t current on vaccines quarantine for after being exposed to the virus.

New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control finally acknowledges that the pandemic is over for most people.

“This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives,” says CDC branch chief

The shift marks a significant change in how the nation deals with COVID-19.

Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over.

The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person

Even as hospitalizations tick upward, CDC releases eased measures aimed at reducing pandemic-era barriers to everyday activity.

Only 35 cases discovered so far but most patients did report fever and fatigue from disease also linked to liver and kidney impairment

The detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in London and New York is providing another stark reminder of the importance of vaccination and new forms of surveillance, public health experts say.

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Norwegian Cruise Line and its sister lines Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises are rolling back COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements next month, the latest cruise line to relax rules enacted during the pandemic.