CDC’s latest COVID-19 guidance for health care centers

CDC released updates about the end of the Public Health Emergency on May 11.

COVID-19 Community Levels will no longer be used and are replaced by COVID-19 hospital admission levels. COVID-19 Transmission Levels that used to guide decisions regarding source control in health care settings are also being discontinued.

This update affects all CDC COVID-19 guidance for all settings:

• State-level COVID-19 testing data used by the CDC to calculate Community Levels are no longer available. Hospital admission data will continue to be available and will be used to calculate hospital admission levels by county. Data are updated weekly.
• The thresholds for low, medium, or high COVID-19 hospital admission levels have not changed:
  • Low:
  • Medium: 10-19 per 100k population
  • High: 20+ per 100k population

For more information about this change to the health care guidance visit the CDC's infection control webpage.

Vaccine templates for standing orders are available on DOH's Clinical Information for COVID-19 Vaccine Providers page.