{"id":51791,"date":"2021-12-27T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51791"},"modified":"2021-12-27T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T00:21:49","slug":"cdc-cuts-isolation-time-for-americans-who-test-positive-from-10-days-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/12\/cdc-cuts-isolation-time-for-americans-who-test-positive-from-10-days-to-5\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC cuts isolation time for Americans who test positive from 10 days to 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday cut the amount of time it recommends people should isolate after testing positive for COVID-19, reducing the number of days from 10 to five.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdc_slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdc_slide.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdc_slide-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cdc_slide-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials similarly reduced the amount of time one should quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tests positive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isolation recommendations are for those who are infected with COVID and start on the day a person tests positive. The agency recommends isolating for five days and going back to normal activities if a person is not showing any symptoms after that period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarantines are defined differently as the term refers to those who are in close contact with someone who tests positive. The CDC previously recommended unvaccinated individuals&nbsp;who come into close contact with someone who tested positive should quarantine for 10 days.&nbsp;The agency previously said those who were vaccinated could skip a quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC is now recommending&nbsp;those who are vaccinated and received a booster shot can skip quarantining if they wear a face mask for at least 10 days. If a person is vaccinated and has not gotten a booster, or if they are partly vaccinated or not vaccinated at all, the CDC recommends a five-day quarantine, then wearing a mask in public for an additional five days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little champagne and a kiss are fine, but Americans should stay away from big parties this New Year&#8217;s Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci said in an interview on CNN that people should avoid the gatherings where they don\u2019t know the vaccination status of all the guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday cut the amount of time it recommends people should isolate after testing positive for COVID-19, reducing the number of days from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51793,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions\/51793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}