New research says coronavirus isolation should be shorter than CDC’s guidance

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  • People who test positive for the novel coronavirus have to self-isolate for 10 days so they don’t infect other people during their recovery.
  • New research indicates that COVID-19 patients are most infectious between two days before the onset of symptoms and five days after symptoms start.
  • The CDC might soon change its 10-day isolation recommendation, a new report says.

Everyone should be familiar with two widely used COVID-19 terms: quarantine and isolation. Both of these measures are employed to reduce the risk of transmission and flatten the curve, and both of them involve several days of avoiding other people as you shelter in place at home. You quarantine when you think you’ve been exposed to someone infected with the virus. Because symptoms can appear between two and 14 days after exposure, you have to quarantine for two weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers shortening that period and allowing people to return to regular life upon a negative test.

Self-isolation is what you do when you contract the illness. You have to separate yourself from others living in the same home to reduce the risk of transmission. According to the CDC, you’ll have to wait for symptoms to pass, and you’ll be able to leave your room or house again 10 days after diagnosis. That’s provided you experience an asymptomatic or mild to moderate version of COVID-19 that doesn’t require hospitalization. But new research says that isolation after a confirmed diagnosis could be a lot shorter than the CDC recommendation, as people tend to shed the virus for a shorter amount of time.

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