The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Faced with criticism, the CDC updates guidance on isolation by covid-19

2022-01-05T08:13:29.869Z


The CDC on Tuesday updated its guidance on the COVID-19 isolation period to include information on rapid tests.


Fauci explains why the CDC changed the covid-19 isolation guidelines 1:03

(CNN) -

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance on the recommended COVID-19 isolation period on Tuesday.

Now, the guide says, for people who have access to a COVID-19 test and want to take it, the best approach is to use a rapid test towards the end of their five-day isolation period.

Last week outside medical experts lobbied the agency to include a trial component in its new shortened isolation period.

  • Minute by minute: all the news about the coronavirus and the new omicron variant

The updated recommendations do not recommend that isolated individuals be tested, but do provide guidance on how such individuals should respond to a test result if they choose to do so.

If the test is positive, isolates are advised to continue their isolation for up to 10 days after symptoms began.

If the test is negative, isolated people can end their isolation, but they are recommended to wear a mask around other people until the 10th day.

The recommendations advise people in isolation to avoid places where they cannot wear a mask, such as restaurants and gyms, and not to eat with other people until the 10th day.

People who are isolating themselves are now being urged to wait to travel until at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms.

Those who must travel between the 6th and 10th must wear a mask for the entire trip.

The CDC says the changes are intended to "focus on the period when a person is most contagious ... These updated recommendations also facilitate individual welfare and social needs, return to work, and maintenance of critical infrastructure." .

advertising

The White House defended the CDC on Tuesday, calling the recommendations "science-based" and not based on "a clear communication plan."

"The CDC is offering its updated, real-time guide to a rapidly moving and changing pandemic environment," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told CNN's Kaitlan Collins at a news conference.

"We have seen them change the guide and update the guide on other occasions. They made this recommendation last week based on science. The vast majority of transmission infection occurs in the first five days after covid-19 diagnosis, in somewhere in the range of 85 to 90%. "

He said the CDC "continues its evaluation every day, every week."

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky foreshadowed the updated guide Monday night on CBS's "The Late Show."

CDC does not recommend rapid tests to terminate covid-19 isolation 3:43

"So if you have access to a test, and if you want to do a test on day five, and if your symptoms are gone and you feel fine, go and do that test. But that's how I would interpret that test. If it's positive, stay home for another five days. If negative, I'd say you still need to wear a mask. You may still have some transmissibility ahead of you. You probably shouldn't visit Grandma, you shouldn't get on a plane. And still, you have to be very careful when you are with other people and wear a mask all the time, "he said.

The updated guidance advising people to remain in isolation until the 10th day if they test positive after five days of isolation appears to contradict Walensky's statement to CNN last week that "we would not change our guidance based on the result. of the quick test test ".

Walensky had strongly defended the agency's decision not to include the recommendation for a rapid test in an earlier guide, telling CNN last week: "We chose not to include the rapid isolation test because we don't really know how our insulation works. rapid tests and how well they predict whether you are communicable during the end of the disease. "

  • These are the symptoms caused by the omicron variant of the new coronavirus

On CNN Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that "the probability of transmissibility is considerably lower" in the second half of the 10-day period after a positive result.

Walensky has also argued that the CDC's decision not to include a test recommendation had nothing to do with the national shortage of rapid tests.

"This decision really, from an isolation point of view, had more to do with the fact that we wouldn't change our guidance based on the result of that quick test. And you know it had nothing to do with any shortages at all, because we recommend rapid tests for those in quarantine, "Walensky said.

Despite that, there has been deep frustration within the Biden administration in the days since the CDC announced the cut to the recommended relief period for those who test positive for covid-19 from 10 days to five without any components. test, according to multiple officials.

CNN's Katherine Dillinger contributed to this report.

CDC

Source: cnnespanol

All news articles on 2022-01-05

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.