: Omicron: Viral load can be highest at day five, so don’t cut isolation period excessively #IndiaNEWS Before Omicron, people in the UK with Covid-19 symptoms or a positive test had to self-isolate

Omicron: Viral load can be highest at day five, so don’t cut isolation period excessively #IndiaNEWS
Before Omicron, people in the UK with Covid-19 symptoms or a positive test had to self-isolate for 10 days. But when the new variant of concern arrived, the government changed the self-isolation period to seven days. On the other side of the Atlantic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that given what is known about the Omicron variant, they are changing the self-isolation period to five days.Now, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that the self-isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19 is being cut to five full days in England (it is unclear, at this point, if other UK nations will do the same). From January 17, people in England will be able to leave isolation after two negative lateral flow tests (taken 24 hours apart) from day five. The rules are the same regardless of vaccine status. As a medical microbiologist, I am concerned that there is little scientific evidence to justify the safety of these reduced measures.Some argue that Omicron is “mild??? and is not resulting in a spike in hospitalisations, but it must be remembered that this wave is sweeping through a population with a considerable degree of protection derived from combinations of natural infection and vaccination-induced immunity. Instead, the...Read more

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