“We have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic. Some science has demonstrated less than a third of people are isolating when they need to,” Walensky told CNN
where we were going to have a lot of diseasethat could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to and that spoke specifically to when people were maximally infectious,” she continued.of new Covid-19 cases, with 441,278 infections surpassing the previous daily record by close to 150,000. The dire state of the pandemic across the country demanded a change in CDC’s “conservative” guidance, Walensky said on Wednesday.
Then, on Monday, the CDC announced that individuals who test positive for Covid-19 and are asymptomatic, not 10 days, citing increasing evidence that people are most infectious in the initial days after developing symptoms. “It’s frankly reckless to proceed like this,” Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute,on Tuesday. “Using a rapid test or some type of test to validate that the person isn’t infectious is vital.”
“And if it was positive — we still know the maximum amount of transmission was behind you — we still wanted you to wear a mask,” she added. “And given that we were not going to change our recommendations based on the result of that rapid test, we opted not to include it.” Although Walensky defended the CDC’s decision not to add a negative testing requirement to its new guidance, she still promoted the overall efficacy of antigen tests — which the FDA on Tuesday“We do know that the antigen test may not perform as well as it had for prior variants — the Alpha variant and the Delta variant — but it’s still picking up quite a bit of infection,” Walensky said.
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