A middle school principal walks the empty halls of his school as he speaks with one of his teachers to get an update on her COVID-19 symptoms. The time that close contacts need to be isolated from one another was cut from 10 to five days. The file is labeled "AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton."
The time that close contacts need to be isolated from one another has been shortened.
The CDC said the guidance is in keeping with evidence that people with the coronaviruses are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.
The decision was driven by a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.
Omicron may cause milder illnesses than earlier versions of the coronaviruses. Hospitals, airlines, and other businesses are at risk of being closed because of the number of people who are getting sick.
Rochelle Walensky said the country is about to see a lot of cases.
Not all of those cases will be severe. She told The Associated Press on Monday that many are going to be normal. We want to make sure that we can keep society functioning while following the science.
Health care workers used to be required to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive. Workers can return to work after seven days if they test negative for a disease and don't have symptoms. If there are severe staffing shortages, isolation time could be cut to five days or less.
The CDC is changing the guidance for the general public to be less stringent.
The guidance is not a requirement, but a recommendation to employers and state and local officials. New York state said last week that it would expand the CDC's guidance for health-care workers to include other critical jobs that are facing a severe staffing shortage.
CDC is trying to get out of the way of other states shortening their isolation policies. Walensky said it would be helpful to have uniform CDC guidance that others could draw from.
The CDC guidance on isolation and quark has seemed confusing to the public, and the new recommendations are happening at a time when more people are testing positive for the first time and looking for guidance.
The guidance is complex.
Is there a way to figure it out.
The rules for isolation are for people who are sick. They are the same for people who are unvaccinated.
They say that.
The clock starts when you test positive.
The recommended number of days for an infectious person to go into isolation is 10.
If you don't have any symptoms after five days, you can return to normal activities, but you must wear a mask for at least five more days.
If you still have symptoms after being isolated for five days, stay home until you feel better and then wear a mask at all times.
It's called quarantine.
People who were in close contact with an infectious person but did not transmit the disease are exempt from the rules.
The clock starts when someone is told they may have been exposed to the virus.
People who came in close contact with an infectious person and were not fully vaccined should stay home for at least 10 days, according to the CDC.
The agency says only people who got booster shots can skip the quark if they wear masks for at least 10 days.
That is a change. People who had two or one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, could be exempt from the CDC's requirement that they be fully protected.
People who got their initial shots but not boosters are in the same situation as people who are partly vaccined or not, if they wear masks in all settings for five days.
Five days.
It is not without risk to suspend both isolation and scurvy after a few days.
Many Americans get tested for other reasons, like to see if they can visit family or work, even though a lot of people get tested when they first feel symptoms. That means a positive test result can't give a clear picture of when a person is most likely to get a disease.
The risk of spreading a disease after five days is not gone for everyone, said Dr. Glatt, a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
He said that if you decrease it to five days, you're still going to have a small but significant number of people who are contagious.
That's the reason why wearing masks is important.
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