Dr. Fauci: CDC reducing Covid isolation time guidelines will ‘get people back to jobs’ (via CNBCMakeIt)
indicates that an individual with Covid-19 should go into isolation for five days . After five days, if an individual does not have symptoms, they can return to normal activities while wearing a mask — including at home with others — for at least five more days. People should still continue to isolate themselves while they experience symptoms and can begin their five days of masking when they no longer have symptoms.
The CDC also changed the recommendations for those who are exposed to Covid. Previously, the organization said people who were fully vaccinated and were exposed could skip quarantine. Now only those who got booster shots can skip quarantine if they wear masks in all settings for at least 10 days. "The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out," Fauci told. "I mean, obviously if you have symptoms you should [be out], but if you are asymptomatic and you are infected we want to get people back to jobs — particularly those with essential jobs to keep our society running smoothly.
"Instead of keeping people out of action, out of work, out of society, for 10 days, if you're infected and without symptoms then you have 5 days of isolation and then you can go back out into society with a mask worn consistently," he said.that the omicron variant is highly transmissible and poses a severe threat to health care systems even if symptoms are milder than previous strains.
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