NJ students who test positive for COVID-19 or are exposed to someone who is infected with the virus will be able to return to the classroom faster under new guidelines that cut the required quarantine period down to five days.
The state also recommends people exposed to infected individuals, but who are themselves not sick or testing positive, quarantine for five full days and continue to wear masks for another five. However, adults and children 5-17 years old who have been exposed to an infected person do not need to quarantine if they have been vaccinated and show no symptoms.
The new guidelines follow the changing guidelines of the CDC, which in December halved its previous 10-day quarantine recommendation despite infections skyrocketing around the country, driven largely by the more transmissible omicron variant. The agency hasby pointing to data that suggests coronavirus is at its most transmissible during the early part of an infection.
“These updated recommendations also facilitate individual social and well-being needs, return to work, and maintenance of critical infrastructure,” the CDC posted to its website. Nonetheless, outside medical experts have criticized the CDC’s new guidelines, especially because they allow people to leave quarantine after five days without getting tested to see if they are still infectious.
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