The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is maintaining its position on its new COVID-19 isolation policy, with a slight update amid backlash.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is maintaining its position on its new COVID-19 isolation policy, telling people who had symptoms and who have access to a test to be sure to use an antigen test in slightly updated guidance.
Many at-home antigen tests are sold out in stores or in short supply due to the recent surge in cases driven by the omicron variant. If someone tests positive with an antigen test on day five, the CDC says they should continue to isolate for five more days. “The vast majority of your transmissibility happens in the day or two before you get symptoms and the two, three days afterwards,” she told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday on “The Late Show.” “So, probably about 80% to 90% of all your transmissibility has happened in those first five days. And we really want people to be sure if they’re going to be home, they’re home for the right period of time when they’re maximally transmissible.”• Children made up 17.7% of the new COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
• The U.S. ordered an additional 10 million treatment courses of Pfizer’s PFE, +2.85% at-home COVID-19 treatment. This brings the total order to 20 million treatment courses of Paxlovid. The pills, which were authorized last month, are in short supply. “We may need even more,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday. “That’s the estimate we need right now. We’ve already placed the largest order in the world; now I’m doubling that order.
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