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Surveillance of COVID-19, COVID-19-associated mortality after expiration of COVID-19 public health emergency declaration on May 11 will continue

Walensky will resign as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the end of June

Move is in line with efforts to wind down other COVID-19-related tools on the CDC website

Walensky aims to prioritize public health needs, deemphasize publication of scientific papers about rare diseases

Agency suggests Americans consider what settings are riskier based on crowds, poor ventilation, and personal risks

Third shot can be given at least five months after healthy children complete the two-dose vaccine series

Goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is to act as a 'National Weather Service' for infectious disease outbreaks

Revamp would focus on improving the nation's public health workforce, data modernization, laboratory capacity, rapid response to outbreaks

Agency wants to give more emphasis to meaningful consequences such as hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and deaths

Users may fail to quarantine or quarantine unnecessarily because of misinterpretation of pretest probability