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Federal health officials are likely to shorten their recommendation for how long people should quarantine to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus from the current 14 days to as few as seven.
Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations call for two weeks of isolation from the last contact with a person known to have COVID-19. However, Adm. Brett Giroir, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Tuesday that health officials were rethinking that recommendation, citing "a preponderance of evidence that a shorter quarantine complemented by a test might be able to shorten that quarantine period."
I think they're still refining the best approach to the quarantine measures. We haven't done anything like this in over a century and the world has changed significantly since then.
I think they're still refining the best approach to the quarantine measures. We haven't done anything like this in over a century and the world has changed significantly since then.
The virus doesnt care that the world is different today.
I think they're still refining the best approach to the quarantine measures. We haven't done anything like this in over a century and the world has changed significantly since then.
The world may have changed but breathing in a virus bug is no different today than 100 years ago.
Some things NEVER change and catching a virus is one of them.
Doctor in white lab coat, wearing round mirror on forehead, shaking together small objects and tossing them onto the table, a voice from the shadows yells, "THROW 'DEM BONES, what's it gonna be?"
Anecdotally, the eight people I know that have had COVID all developed symptoms within 5 days. While the 14 day incubation is certainly possible, hasn't it been established that those are outliers and not the norm?
Well, yes - the 14 days are outliers. The 13 days are also outliers...just not as "out lie" as the 14 days. The 12 days are also ... ya see where I'm going with this. It's a bit of a bell curve - with most folks showing symptoms in a window of days.
But in an abundance of caution, the CDC said, How Can We Catch 99% of these people? Eh, that'd be 14 days.
They can still catch a high percent (80? 85?) with just 10 days. Or maybe 7.
And since a percentage of folks actively avoid "confessing" because they can't take 14 days off work - there's probably a number in there where it's a wash. 14 days ain't it. Neither is 5.
OH yeah, the craps reference - serious or not, I get it. The guidelines DO change and evolve. No one could have predicted such a polarized ("I ain't gonna quarantine!") response when the 14 days was presented. Since that guideline was made - more studies were (always) underway to see what the optimum number of days would be - considering the behavior of people. Getting that data took a while - it was not possible to make a decision like this months ago, as that, indeed, would have been a guess.
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