The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation e forty guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to COVID-19-19 from 10 to five days. The movement attracted quick reviews by many experts, who have questioned the merits of the decision.
“I don’t think there is any major change in science that justifies a change in leadership,” She said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his opinion, orientation “has much more to do with social function than with science.”
One of the biggest criticisms was that the reduction of the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California it has done exactly that with its updated guidelines.
The guide issued by the state’s director of public health, Tomás Aragón, is mostly aligned with the new Center for Disease Prevention and Control recommendations, but contains “additional testing recommendations to get out of isolation and quarantine and better masking measures.”
The California framework states that “local health jurisdictions may be more restrictive” and allows residents who have received booster shots “not to stay home but to get tested on the fifth day.”
Golden State’s new guidelines add that all Covid-positive individuals can end isolation after day five if symptoms are not present (or resolving) and if an antigen test collected on or after day five is negative. It also says that unvaccinated people, or people vaccinated but not boosted, who are exposed to Covid “should stay home for at least five days and even have an antigen test on the fifth day.”
The framework encourages the improvement of mask quality, given the transmissibility and prevalence of Omicron. He says: “Everyone should optimize mask fit and filtration, ideally by wearing a surgical mask or respirator.”
The Los Angeles County Director of Public Health today indicated that the county will align with state guidelines.
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