Currently, anyone who tests positive for COVID is supposed to isolate for a minimum of five days. But soon, those CDC guidelines could change to being fever-free for 24 hours with mild and improving symptoms.
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.Instead of a universal five-day isolation for those who test positive, people would instead be encouraged to isolate until they're fever-free for 24 hours and their symptoms are mild and improving.
People would no longer need to stay home with COVID if they have been fever-free for 24 hours, without the use of medication, and if their symptoms are mild and improving. This is the same guidance that the CDC provides for people who have the flu.This wouldn’t be the first change in isolation guidance: In December 2021, the CDC walked back its recommendation of a 10-day isolation period for those with COVID to just five days of isolation in the absence of symptoms.
The possible changes come at a time when some healthcare professionals and health officials believe that the current guidelines are no longer as effective or necessary as they once were. The fact that getting COVID can be so disruptive to someone’s schedule may actually disincentivize them from following the guidelines, or from testing in the first place, Murphy added. In this way, a more relaxed isolation policy could make it easier for people to not spread the virus.
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