The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insisted on a directive issued a week ago on Tuesday, reducing the quarantine period for those tested positive for covid-19 to five days, but adding that they could take a test. antigen before stopping self-isolation, although this is not required.
The CDC came under pressure from experts who tested positive for covid-19 to complete a diagnostic test before completing their quarantine, following their decision to reduce its isolation time to 5 days from the previous 10 days.
Yesterday the CDC added a clarification on their website, in which they stated that the examination of 113 surveys from 17 countries showed that anyone infected with covid-19 transmits the virus mainly in the early stages of the infection. According to the CDC, a patient is more contagious and is at risk of transmitting the disease “between 2-3 days before the onset of symptoms and 8 days after onset”.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. epidemiologist and White House pandemic adviser, said in a televised interview Sunday that officials were considering asking covid-19-positive Americans to take a quarantine test. for five days.
In their new guidelines, the CDCs do not require or recommend the test.
“If a person has access to a test and wants to do it, the best approach is to use an antigen test towards the end of the five-day quarantine,” they say.
After quarantine the person should wear a strict mask for another five days, the CDC had explained last week, a recommendation that they repeated yesterday. However, if someone tests positive for covid-19 after a five-day quarantine, they should be isolated for another five days.
Corresponding were the statements of CDC director Rochelle Wallenski on Monday.
“If people have access to an antigen test, they can do it five days after they test positive, if their symptoms have subsided and they are feeling well,” he told CBS’s The Late Show.
“If it is positive, stay home for another five days,” he added. “If it’s negative, I would say you should still wear a mask,” he said, “because you can still transmit it.” other people “, he concluded.
The highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading at a very rapid rate, causing staff shortages in schools, businesses and airlines. Delta Airlines, like others, publicly pressured the CDCs to reduce the quarantine period, which the CDCs later did.
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