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...infections should begin with less drastic measures: frequent hand-washing and coughing into sleeves (not hands), and keeping all children with flu symptoms at home. The CDC recommended that schools remain open, even during outbreaks of flu - a shift from its recommendation at the beginning of the pandemic last spring, when schools were advised to shut down immediately when students became ill. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...most significant change in the CDC's guidelines, compared with those issued last spring, is to allow children back to school 24 hours after their fever subsides (without the benefit of fever-reducing medication). Previous guidelines, issued during the height of the outbreak, suggested that kids stay home for seven days after the onset of the first flu symptoms. "This recommendation is based on new information from studies both in the lab and person-to-person on how the virus spreads," said the CDC's Frieden. "This is a shorter period, and it's more practical...
...ultimate decision to close a school, however, still rests with state and local health officials, the CDC said. "The fundamental point from the end of last spring and now is the same - it's a local decision," said Frieden. "Now it's more clear to us than before that there are relatively rare times where it makes sense to close a school just because a virus is present...
...people who get a fever and cough without other serious complications, such as an inability to eat or drink or difficulty breathing, is to stay home and not visit doctors or hospitals, which may be overburdened dealing with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large numbers of the so-called worried well, who, when they showed up en masse, had the ability to delay services for the seriously ill. But U.S. officials admit that today's guidance could change as conditions develop...
...Friday afternoon and was attended by top regulators from all the major oversight bodies, including the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Fed and others. As he talked about the state of the Administration's proposal introduced last spring, Geithner started swearing about the need for regulatory reform to move forward. "There was liberal use of expletives," says an official briefed on the meeting. "Obviously it made some people uncomfortable." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...