U.S. health officials cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch COVID-19 from 10 to five days. CDC officials said this is in keeping with evidence that people are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
Now, the CDC is changing the isolation and quarantine guidance for the general public to be even less stringent. —At the end of five days, if you have no symptoms, you can return to normal activities but must wear a mask everywhere — even at home around others — for at least five more days. That’s a change. Previously, people who were fully vaccinated — which the CDC has defined as having two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — could be exempt from quarantine.
“If you decrease it to five days, you’re still going to have a small but significant number of people who are contagious,” he said.VARYING RECOMMENDATIONS
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