Seem’s the agency probably made that decision based on political and economic reasons one could assume…
Turns out that the 5 day results known to the experts show that fifth day of the virus has a lot of infected people able to infect others more than 50%….
(Nobody saw the fine print from the agency that suggested mask wearing and no travel…They just saw the 5 Days)
I’m NOT a expert on this…
But I DO remember that the Biden admin WAS under YUGE pressure to get the economy started …
And?
We know the CDC is NOT immune to political pressure from the White House of Trump OR Biden…
(Five Days?…Why not Six or Seven?)
We’re lucky the virus seems to have run out people by now…
But an interesting look backwards at the CDC, and how it came to the 5 day isolation suggestion….
More than half of people who took a rapid antigen test five to nine days after first testing positive for the coronavirus or after developing Covid-19 symptoms tested positive on the antigen test, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The finding raises more concerns about the agency’s revised isolation guidelines, which say that many people with Covid can end their isolation periods after five days, without a negative coronavirus test.
A C.D.C. scientist who was an author of the study said that he did not believe the agency’s isolation guidelines needed to change. But the results suggest that many people with the virus may still be infectious during this period, scientists said….
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The C.D.C. shortened the isolation period to five days from 10 in December as the Omicron variant spread. Many public health experts criticized the move, noting that people might still be infectious after five days and that allowing them to end isolation without testing might help the new variant spread faster.
Dr. Ian Plumb, a medical epidemiologist at the C.D.C. and an author of the new study, said that he believed the study “basically supported” the agency’s current isolation guidance, which asks people to continue taking precautions — including wearing masks and refraining from travel — until 10 full days have passed….
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Among the 729 people who took antigen tests on Days 5 through 9 of their isolation periods, 54.3 percent of them tested positive. The proportion of people who tested positive declined over time: 67.5 percent tested positive on Day 5 of their isolation periods, compared with 38.6 percent on Day 9.
People who had symptomatic infections were more likely to test positive on Days 5 through 9 than those who had been asymptomatic, the researchers found. People who had received a primary vaccine series — two doses of an mRNA vaccine or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s shot — or had been previously infected by the virus were less likely to receive positive antigen results during this time frame than those who had not been vaccinated or previously infected…