CDC Might Shorten Recommended Quarantine Time Between Seven and Ten Days
Only if you test negative.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) might shorten the recommended quarantine time after possible COVID-19 exposure from 14 days to between seven and 10 days.
The CDC hopes it would encourage people to comply with the guidelines.
So is it based on science or people not complying? If it’s the latter then why bother with the 14 days? Anyone with a brain cell knows that staying in quarantine for 14 days, especially children, would drive anyone insane.
CDC incident manager for COVID-19 Henry Walke said the recommendation depends on a negative test:
Agency officials are discussing the exact time period and what type of test a person would be given to exit quarantine, he said.
“We do think that the work that we’ve done, and some of the studies we have and the modeling data that we have, shows that we can with testing shorten quarantines,” he said.
If a test comes back negative, he added, “then their probability of going on and developing an infection after that is pretty low.”
Okay, here is the thing. A family member has a positive test. They suggest you get a test seven days from your last contact with that family member. So if that test is negative you can get on with your lives?
Why not implement this once tests became available? We know that “50% of people who become ill develop symptoms between five and six days after they are infected, while 9% develop symptoms after 10 days, and 2% after 14 days.”
Trust me. Quarantine does work. I had the flu/pneumonia last year. I quarantined and no one else in my house got sick.
Quarantine yourself whether you have COVID-19, flu, or pneumonia. Granted, flu symptoms show up one or two days after infection.
Hopefully, the vaccine comes out by the end of the second week of December. Nursing home residents will be first in line followed by health care workers and us people “at high risk for severe illness.”
PLEASE. Get your flu and pneumonia vaccine. PLEASE make sure you are updated on all your other vaccines.
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Appreciate your concern, but I have never gotten a flu shot, and not going to start now. The last time I had a flu was at least 16 years ago, so I think my immune system is up to the task, thank you very much.
I hear you.
I don’t plan on ever getting flu shot ever again.
Hey CDC how about the number of days that should have been from the very start which is 0 days.
Had to get one while active duty Army, more than 40 years ago. I have never had the flu but have known people with it and it is a seriously debilitating passage of time
My theory is that the bulk of the illness comes from the immune response Here;s h9ping—============
The CDC is infested with scummy rats like Fauci, who are mere mouthpieces for fascists infested in our government.
Any of our grandmothers gave better health advice than that lying weasel Fauci ever publicly did.
What Americans have learned from all this is that “the science” changes arbitrarily depending on what the totalitarians want it to be.
I wish somebody could change “the science” behind gravity the same way, so I could finally weigh 180 again.
What they’re doing is unwittingly showing the tests to be unreliable. If you still need to quarantine despite a negative test the test is worthless. The inventor of PCR warned that PCR cannot be used to diagnose disease, and current quick testing PCR guidelines specify 40+ amplification cycles, which means the test grossly overstates infection rates.
This is the thing that annoys me about the quarantine requirements…you can be required to quarantine if someone around you has come in to contact with the Chinese Death Kooties even if you aren’t showing any symptoms for 14 days…but why not test those who have been near Chinese Death Kooties sufferers and if they come up negative then they are good to go back out in to the wild.
Now, if “The Man” says you have to quarantine because you MAY have the Chinese Death Kooties even when you test negative then how can we take a positive test as being accurate if a negative one isnt trusted?
Especially since there are about nine times as many false positives as true positives.
Why are we even discussing this topic? This is the only disease in history which has a 99+% survival rate [and a supposed 70% asymptomatic rate] were we have ever even considered a quarantine. WTH for? Can any one imagine going to their employer in 2019 and saying, “My husband has the flu, I need to stay home for the next 10 days”?
Come on people. It is time to return to reality and to quit drinking the Koolaid; especially the COVID Koolaid.
Just as a follow up on El Paso and it’s inept system.
My wife got the Rona. Quarantined ECT.
Ten days from her positive test date she received her ‘stay at home order’. No issue, except that the letter was dated with a start date 7 days from her positive test date.
Which means she was ordered to quarantine for a period of 14 days beginning 7 days after her positive test. Thus an effective quarantine of 21 days.
It gets better. She took a mandatory retest on the last day of quarantine and was negative BUT, made the error of disclosing she was taking over the counter meds. So they made.her quarantine an additional 3 days pending a follow up telephone consult.
Finally at no point was I contacted by anyone regarding my exposure nor were my movements traced nor was I restricted in any manner whatsoever. Nor was my 17 year old daughter. Not even mandated to get a test.
So much for contact tracing in El Paso Texas. We are all fine by the way.