The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said its recommended quarantine time after someone is exposed to the coronavirus can be shortened to seven days with a negative test result, and 10 days without a test, if they do not have symptoms.
CDC officials said that people ideally would still quarantine for the full 14 days, but that in an effort to boost compliance with quarantining and after “extensive modelling,” they determined there was a low risk of people continuing to spread the virus in the final days of a quarantine.
“Reducing the length of quarantine may make it easier for people to take this critical public health step,” said Henry Walke, the CDC’s COVID-19 incident manager. Continue reading.