The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new quarantine guidelines for people exposed to coronavirus, reducing the duration from 14 days to 10 days without symptom anxiety or seven days without any symptoms and negative testing. The aim is to encourage more people to quarantine in the short term, officials said.
CDC’s Covid-19 Incident Manager Dr. “Reducing the length of the quarantine could encourage more people to do so, especially when they may not be able to work during the quarantine period,” Henry Walke told reporters in a call on Wednesday. He said the agency still recommends 14 days, but is now offering two acceptable alternative quarantine periods.
“As we learn more about viruses, we continue to revise our guidelines,” Valke insisted, adding that everyone should be kept separate if they are exposed – or are Worry about exposure – For coronavirus. He added that people should continue to monitor themselves Features After 14 days – even if they end the quarantine early.
CDC’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. According to John Brooks, when quarantine is reduced to 10 days, the “residual risk” of coming into contact with someone else after quarantine is about 1%.
Brooks said the recommendations made today are broadly modeled not only by the CDC but also by other scientific institutes. “All of this points to the same thing – that a person leaving quarantine as early as possible can reveal to someone else. When 10 days is reduced, the residual risk is 1%, the upper limit of that risk is 12%. Seven days. 5%, and the upper limit is 10%. “
Former Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CBS News.Face the nation“A” vast majority “of coronavirus infections should be obtained during the short-term recommended quarantine period.
“All you need are recommendations that are sensible and practical that people follow,” Gottlieb said Sunday. “And when you have a 14-day quarantine period, it’s so long that a lot of people don’t follow it anyway, and make it difficult to follow the recommendations. Also, you’re going to catch most of the infection in that time frame. “
Hours after Wednesday’s announcement, the CDC left to update the official quarantine guidance posted on its website.
Officials stressed on the call that the agency still advises against unnecessary travel, especially during Winter holiday season When people live inside more often and virus transmission increases.
“The CDC recommends staying home and not traveling.” “If you travel, test 1-3 days before and 3-5 days after the trip and minimize any movement between times.”
More than 90,000 people were admitted to Covid-19 hospital on Thanksgiving Day, a record high, according to the COVID tracking project. During the holiday period, public health experts urged Americans to stop celebrating the family giant.
although, More than 1 million Americans Thanksgiving is upon us, which means the holiday season is in full swing, with the highest number of passengers on Sundays, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The three-day period from Friday to Sunday was the busiest travel week since the weekend of March 14-16.
D-. Celine Gunder, a member of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, told CBSN that he expects the movement to move forward. An increase in cases, and eventually death, in the coming weeks. The coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Deborah Berks warns that those who travel for the holidays and attend large gatherings Suppose he was infected.
“Unfortunately,” said Gounder, “that means a lot of people who celebrated with family, with friends over Thanksgiving, will find themselves in the ICU in the hospital, at Christmas and in the new year.”
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