Walensky says that “studies show that people are most infectious in the one-to-two days before symptoms develop, and in the two-to-three days after,” with an estimated 85-90 percent of transmission occurring in the first five days of infection.
American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The CDC announced the changes Monday, saying they were “shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to five days, if asymptomatic, followed by five days of wearing a mask when around others.” “Basically, if you test negative or positive we want you to mask,” Walensky said, noting that the new CDC guidance recommends masking for five days after isolation.
“Ending isolation of COVID cases in five days without testing negative is the nose-out-of-mask of COVID-19 policies,”, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, wrote on Twitter Tuesday. “By not including a testing requirement, there will be a lot of infectious people in the workforce transmitting the virus to the others — further increasing the public health risks and likely economic disruptions.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which describes itself as “the world's largest labor union organized by flight attendants for flight attendants,”
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