CDC issues contingency options to prevent shortage of health care workers in event of major omicron surge, including shortening the amount of time health care workers must self-isolate following a COVID-19 infection.
across the country to prepare for a possible major surge in infections of COVID-19 due to the high transmissibility of the omicron variant.
Under “conventional” conditions, health care facilities can allow asymptomatic personnel who were infected with COVID-19 to return to work after seven days and a negative test, regardless of vaccination status, according to the new CDC guidance. For health care personnel who were symptomatic, fever should have resolved without medications.A worker, left, rests for a second between patients, as another person, right, is tested for COVID-19 at a walk-up testing site at Farragut Square, Dec.
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