The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took down a page on its website with guidance on how to celebrate the upcoming fall and winter holidays safely, saying that updated guidelines are coming "soon."

"The content is in the process of being updated by CDC to reflect current guidance ahead of this holiday season," a CDC spokesperson said in a statement. "The page had a technical update on Friday, but doesn’t reflect the CDC’s guidance ahead of this upcoming holiday season. CDC will share additional guidance soon."

As of Tuesday morning, the holiday web page redirected to a general COVID-19 information page on the CDC's website.

The previous guidance fom the CDC said that “the safest way to celebrate is virtually, with people who live with you, or outside and at least 6 feet apart from others.” The CDC also offered a list of suggestions for how to safely celebrate the holidays during the pandemic, including video chat parties with family and friends and outdoor parties with everyone distanced at least 6 feet apart. 

The guidance did not directly address Halloween events, such as trick-or-treating, with just weeks before the Oct. 31 holiday.

The new developments come as a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly contagious delta variant has subsided somewhat, but the holiday season could see another surge in cases as weather turns colder and family and friends gather for holidays indoors.

According to CDC data, the number of new COVID-19 cases fell 36% from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1 to a seven-day average of 103,422. But the worst wave of the pandemic followed Thanksgiving and Christmas last year.

In an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she thinks children should be able to go trick-or-treating this year if they are outside and in small groups.

Asked Sunday about Christmas, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said it is “just too soon to tell” whether gatherings should be limited. 

"We've just got to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we're going to do at a particular time," Fauci said Sunday, also on “Face the Nation.” “Let's focus like a laser on continuing to get those cases down. And we can do it by people getting vaccinated and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate to get people boosted.”

After Dr. Fauci's statement garnered backlash from Republicans, the nation's top infectious disease expert told CNN Monday that his comments were "misinterpreted."

"The best way to assure that we'll be in good shape as we get into the winter would be to get more and more people vaccinated," Fauci said.

"That was misinterpreted as my saying we can't spend Christmas with our families, which was absolutely not the case," he added. "I will be spending Christmas with my family, I encourage people, particularly the vaccinated people who are protected, to have a good, normal Christmas with your family."

NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect new developments from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be updated when the health agency releases its modified holiday health guidelines.