U.S. health officials are weighing the role of COVID-19 tests as part of their new guidelines shortening quarantines for people without symptoms, saying more details could come within days.
As the super-spreading Omicron variant spread nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week shortened the recommended isolation time for Americans with asymptomatic COVID-19 cases to five days from the previous guidance of 10 days.
"They have certainly received feedback and questions about the role of testing in shortening that quarantine period and they're actually working right now on issuing a clarification on that," U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN on Tuesday. He did not say what clarification the CDC planned, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky late Monday did not signal any formal testing requirement would be added.
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, in television interviews on Sunday said officials were considering asking people to get tested after a five-day quarantine period.
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