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CDC Cuts Isolation Time For COVID-19 Infections From 10 Days To 5

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source link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/27/2223216/cdc-cuts-isolation-time-for-covid-19-infections-from-10-days-to-5?
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CDC Cuts Isolation Time For COVID-19 Infections From 10 Days To 5
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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. The Associated Press reports: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop. The decision also was driven by a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, propelled by the omicron variant. Early research suggests omicron may cause milder illnesses than earlier versions of the coronavirus. But the sheer number of people becoming infected -- and therefore having to isolate or quarantine -- threatens to crush the ability of hospitals, airlines and other businesses to stay open, experts say. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the country is about to see a lot of omicron cases. "Not all of those cases are going to be severe. In fact many are going to be asymptomatic," she told The Associated Press on Monday. "We want to make sure there is a mechanism by which we can safely continue to keep society functioning while following the science." Last week, the agency loosened rules that previously called on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive. The new recommendations said workers could go back to work after seven days if they test negative and don't have symptoms. And the agency said isolation time could be cut to five days, or even fewer, if there are severe staffing shortages. Now, the CDC is changing the isolation and quarantine guidance for the general public to be even less stringent. The guidance is not a mandate; it's a recommendation to employers and state and local officials.

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Right wingers should stand up for their freedumbs, not get vaccinated, not wear a mask, a not isolate, great news for the worlds gene pool.

Yes because the mortality rate is so high . . . .

Look, I get it. I'm vaccinated and boosted. I indeed to trust the science and think the smart person may as well go ahead and get the vaccine, but you look foolish when you go the whole "LOL these idiots are going to die" route.

COVID's mortality rate is such that across an entire population a decent number of people can die, but to the individual who catches it, the risk is minimal. Still not worth taking, but minimal. If anything your argument is hurting the pro-vax cause because the assertion that you're going to die if you don't get vaxxed is quite clearly not correct to the average person, so you say that and they basically see "well obviously they're wrong about the death part, so they're probably wrong about the whole vaccine".

Not to mention anti-vaxx stuff isn't just split between party lines. If you look at the statistics most minorities are lower in their vaccination rates, and these are people who typically vote Democrat. If you look at at this link, figure 3: https://www.kff.org/coronaviru... [kff.org]

You can see that Asians are the highest rate at 77%, but the black population has the lowest rate at 51% (and that's due to a recent improvement where the gap has narrowed). For better or for worse their population has a somewhat justified skepticism when it comes to government doctors and medical programs.

Both sides are guilty of politicizing this whole thing. To the Republicans: yes the vaccines are safe. Yes, they work, but they are not a 100% magic shield that never fails. To the Democrats, no COVID19 without being vaccinated is not a death sentence, nor is is just a bunch of "dumb Republicans" who are avoiding the vaccine.

    • Use the VAERs database for what it is meant for. Try and let the experts actually interpret the data.

      Effective: Effective at reducing your risk of death and hospitalization. I'd say that's effective--you wouldn't?

      I'd trust them more than I'd trust an AC spewing old news antivax.

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          There have been almost 9 billion COVID vaccines administered as of today, all over the world.

          So, when can we expect to start dropping like flies? I need to plan around this.

            • If posts like the parent keep getting modded to -1 readers of the forum will never understand WHY some people are not getting vaccinated.

              If they don't understand the objections, they won't be able to find trustworthy and convincing data to counter them. (Presuming it exists, of course.)

              If they can't find a way to convince the people who object to change their opinions and behavior, they won't be able to raise the rate of vaccination refusal.

              Don't mod it to oblivion: Discuss the points. Or at least let ot

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          Until then Tovarishch, get vaccinated and wear a mask in groups or indoors.

            • There is a reason why Trumpy got his booster shot. Remember kids, he already got covid.

              No Joe Rogan Medical Dude or horse pills for him.

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                Yes, he's old and fat. Demographics. Rogan didn't take horse pills. Why are you implying he did?
              • You DO know that Ivermectin is used for humans and is known to have antiviral properties, right? The âhorse pillâ(TM) comment just demonstrates your ignorance.

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                  Except people hear from some random guy, "Oh, I took Ivermectin and didn't die from COVID!"... and then they take that instead of a far more effective vaccine. And just because you took X medicine and didn't die is statistically meaningless, since the vast, vast majority of people don't die or even go to the hospital once contracting COVID.

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                  Except that doctors, real doctors, are using it as part of a battery of treatments for people who come down with severe cases of Covid. You just don't hear it on the news, because Orange Man Bad is still a thing even after almost a year has passed since he was a thing. It's being used in many other countries, including Japan...which you can't argue is a bastion of Republicans nor as being backwards scientifically.

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        You don't have to trust experts, you can do your own research. There are plenty of studies you can read, and summaries of those studies for people who are not familiar with statistics.

        And your own research will uncover that the vaccine is quite safe.

          • If posts like the parent keep getting modded to -1 readers of the forum will never understand WHY some people are not getting vaccinated.

            If they don't understand the objections, they won't be able to find trustworthy and convincing data to counter them. (Presuming it exists, of course.)

            If they can't find a way to convince the people who object to change their opinions and behavior, they won't be able to raise the rate of vaccination refusal.

            FYI: I got my first series on the first day it was available

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    "Both sides are guilty of politicizing this whole thing"
    Once one side begins it's impossible to ignore for the other especially since it's the politicians who control the message.
    What was the last public health crisis that wasn't a political football?

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      I have absolutely no problem with Politicians politicizing "this whole thing." That is literately their job. The tragedy in all this has been Corporate Media. Corporate Media has the responsibility to expose the political rhetoric. What happened to the Fourth Estate? Yes, they have always sensationalized stories. Remember the USS Maine? But I was hoping beyond hope that rabid outright deception and lying was a thing of the past. I was hoping the internet would provide the public with timely facts so

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        And, to a large extent they do. Left-wing media exposes right-wing rhetoric (while adding much of their own), while right-wing media exposes left-wing rhetoric (while adding much of their own). The partisan media has a responsibility to their owners (not viewers) to get people to vote a certain way, and discrediting the opposition is an important part of that.

        I find spending equal time with left and right of center news quickly weeds out a lot of BS, and helps me avoid being manipulated by an individua

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        How is comparing a disease that is hospitalizing people to the common cold not sensationalizing? Sounds like you're the one out of touch.

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          The common cold hospitalizes people, if you mean that literally more than one person went to the hospital over it.

          You are doing exactly what is being pointed out here: engaging in sensationalism for political purposes. The sad thing is that it isn't helping anything which is what we normal people want. People like you probably do want to fan the flames of division for reasons most of us will never understand. I wish people like you didn't exist so we could colonize space and usher in technological utopia

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      Except, they are not. Hospitals have a uptake in covid issues right now, but they are not being clogged up by them. There are also no reports of any hospital being overwhelmed by the non- vaccinated. Also, in that same vein there are no reports of any real emergencies being turned away for non-vaccinated.

      • Hospitals have a uptake in covid issues right now, but they are not being clogged up by them. There are also no reports of any hospital being overwhelmed by the non- vaccinated. Also, in that same vein there are no reports of any real emergencies being turned away for non-vaccinated.

        In addition to the political catfight, this is an era of massive, admitted, censorship and distortion of news and even interpersonal communication (e.g. via social media).

        To those suspicious of the establishment's positions and

  • COVID's mortality rate is such that across an entire population a decent number of people can die, but to the individual who catches it, the risk is minimal. Still not worth taking, but minimal.

    Two things:

    1) The risk isn't just dying. If you get hospitalized with this and live, you're probably coming out of the hospital with permanent lung damage. And once you've got scarring in your lungs, it tends to get worse over time. Your quality of life sucks, and it takes years off your life. I've seen this first hand before. It's not fun.

    2) It's not a random scattering of people refusing to get vaccinated. The red states as a whole tend to have much lower vaccination rates, which means the outbreaks are a lot worse. If the hospitals fill up (which they have plenty of times over the past 2 years), your odds of survival go way down. You also get people dying from other issues that could have been prevented. It might not mean *you* die, but it does mean people die that didn't have to.

    The problem is you can't look at the situation at just an individual level. If some random people here and there don't get vaccinated, yeah, it's not that big a deal. The risk to them still isn't that

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    You might add that the "wellness" community has a lot of people who are pro-crystal and anti-vax.

  • Wait, WE look foolish trying to convey that something like 1/100 or 3/1000 odds are actually pretty fucking bad for a highly contagious disease that everyone is expected to get? And it's OUR fault these fuckers don't get vaccinated because if it sounded less scary they might listen, are you joking?

    What are you supposed to say to an idiot that balks at 99% or 99.7% or whatever because THEY'LL probably live? The real problem, right fucking in front of you, is not caring about everyone else when given those

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    It's as if he denies the science of natural immunization and innoculation. Fancy that.

    • Obviously we all need to get HIV, the survivors will be HIV resistant, this is the way.

      Fucking moron.


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