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He believes that the current system has several weaknesses.
News came on Tuesday that the American Communicable Disease Authority (CDC) wants to shorten the quarantine period for close contacts from 14 to 7 days.
The official, who spoke anonymously, says the changes have been debated for a while on the basis that researchers have examined the incubation time of the virus, NTB reports.
Norway also now wants to reduce the quarantine period.
Shorter quarantine, negative test may give an exemption
In its latest risk report, FHI hints that there will also be reductions in Norway in the future. They are both concerned that people are simply ignoring current rules and that the quarantine period is unnecessarily long. In Norway, it is known to last 10 days.
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– The challenge is that the fewest number of close contacts (other than household members) who are in quarantine are infected. At any given time, tens of thousands of Norwegians are in quarantine. Questions can be asked about the balance between the effect of infection control and the burden of action, FHI reports in its report.
– Isolation and quarantine compliance may be poorer as a result of measurement fatigue and the lack of a threat image, writes FHI.
One possible solution is to increase the benefits of testing:
– In addition, evidence can be used to authorize people to work or other activities or to shorten quarantine.
In their report, they write that the “generation time” of the virus is assumed to be 4 to 5 days, which means that it takes between 4 and 5 days from the moment it is infected until the next link is infected.
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They envision that the quarantine period can be set differently depending on how close you actually have been to the infected person:
– The follow-up of close contacts should be able to differentiate, as knowledge develops. Perhaps quarantine is of little use to more peripheral close contacts, and perhaps a negative test may at some point free the close contact from further quarantine.
Specific recommendations
In its report, FHI proposes changes to both regular close contact quarantine and inbound quarantine.
About infection tracking and quarantine:
– More research is needed on the usefulness of quarantine for different types of close contacts and on evidence-based alternatives to quarantine. The time in quarantine should be considered adjusted according to current knowledge, writes FHI.
This up-to-date knowledge is what the United States uses to reduce quarantine time:
Inbound quarantine:
– Rules for incoming quarantine should be adjusted with experience to, if possible, ease the burden of action without increasing the risk of infection.
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