When to come out of Covid isolation in 2023, according to experts

Erika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and 'TODAY.'

Covid symptoms may change, but the appearance of a pink line on a rapid test means one thing for sure: five days of isolation. The guidance, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been in place since late 2021. At the moment, the agency doesn’t appear to be making any changes to the policy. But in some cases, telling people to isolate after a positive test may have an unintended effect. Dr.

Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “If you’re feeling fine the entire five days and have absolutely no symptoms, staying at home by yourself is not the same as somebody who’s had symptoms and then after five days, they’re going out and coughing on everyone,” Chin-Hong said. “The symptoms approach makes more sense, not just for Covid, but for lots of other infectious diseases that people don’t normally isolate for.

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