Top health officials in the Biden administration are pushing back against criticism of the CDC's move to cut the recommended isolation time for people who test positive for COVID from 10 days to five days if they're asymptomatic.
who say the guidelines are confusing and will potentially cause more spread of the disease.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday also maintained the policy change, saying "it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate" in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins."We have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic ... and so we really want to make sure that we have guidance, in this moment when we knew we were going to have a lot of disease, that could be adhered to," Walensky said.
Walensky also responded to questions over why the CDC did not recommend a negative rapid test after isolation saying: "We actually don't know how our rapid tests perform and how well they predict whether you're transmissible during the end of disease. The FDA has not authorized them for that use."Right now, because of the concern that there are so many people now and likely in the next few weeks who will be infected by this wave of infections ...
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