U.S. officials are loosening rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive for COVID-19. The revised guidelines allow workers to return after seven days if they test negative and don’t have any symptoms.
that call on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive.
Those workers now will be allowed to come back to work after seven days if they test negative and don’t have symptoms.
“Our goal is to keep health care personnel and patients safe, and to address and prevent undue burden on our healthcare facilities,” she added.Isolation is designed to keep infected people away from uninfected people, to prevent further spread of the virus. CDC officials have advised that in calculating the 10-day isolation period, the first day should be the first full day after symptoms first developed or after a positive test. If a person develops symptoms sometime after a positive COVID-19 test, the quarantine period must restart, beginning one day after the symptoms develop.The Associated Press Health & Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.