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Viral load of omicron can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense
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Viral load of omicron can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense

by Sally Cutler, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Before omicron, people in the UK with COVID symptoms or a positive test had to self-isolate for ten days. But when the new variant of concern arrived, the government changed the self-isolation period to seven days. On the other side of the Atlantic, the US Centers for Disease...

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Cutting 10-Day COVID Isolation Period In Half

Mike Stobbe 12/27/2021 04:43 pm EST NEW YORK (AP) — 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing...