This website provides infection prevention and control considerations for residents of long-term care facilities with systemic signs and symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination. The approach described in this document is intended to balance:
- the risk of unnecessary testing and implementation of Transmission-Based Precautions for residents with only post-vaccination signs and symptoms with that of
- inadvertently allowing residents with infectious COVID-19 or another transmissible infectious disease to expose others in the facility.
Post vaccine considerations for residents of long-term care facilities. Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021, online.
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