{"id":20931,"date":"2024-08-07T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=20931"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:26:45","slug":"staying-current-on-cdc-guidelines-for-covid-19-and-respiratory-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2024\/general\/staying-current-on-cdc-guidelines-for-covid-19-and-respiratory-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying current on CDC guidelines for COVID-19 and respiratory viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Health Services encourages students to avail themselves of the CDC\u2019s latest guidance on preventing respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. Current guidelines recommend a return to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, a student\u2019s symptoms are improving and they have not had a fever without the use of fever-reducing medication. When students return to normal activities, they are encouraged to take added precautions over the next five days (e.g., physical distancing, wearing a mask and testing). Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/prevention\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students who experience symptoms of COVID-19 or other respiratory viruses and need to miss class should work directly with their instructors to keep current on assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Services encourages students to avail themselves of the CDC\u2019s latest guidance on preventing respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. Current guidelines recommend a return to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, a student\u2019s symptoms are improving and they have not had a fever without the use of fever-reducing medication. When students return to normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,22,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-20931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-facstaff","8":"tag-student","9":"tag-un"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions\/20932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}