CDC Director: Human behavior played into shortening recommended isolation period for COVID cases

  • by:
  • Source: Fox News
  • 01/12/2022
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky acknowledged Wednesday that human behavior played into the latest guidelines for how long individuals with coronavirus should quarantine.

In an appearance on CNN, Walensky was pressed about how and why the CDC reduced its recommended isolation period from 10 days to five days for people who had tested positive for COVID-19 and were asymptomatic by that time. Walensky said most transmission of the virus occurred in the immediate days before and after developing symptoms of the disease.

As she added "people need to get back to work," Walensky said the behavioral science aspect of it came into play as well.

"From what you're saying, it sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did with the science," fill-in anchor Kaitlan Collins said.


"It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate," Walensky said, saying studies showed a majority of Americans weren't isolating when they "need to." "And so we really want to make sure that we had guidance in this moment — where we were going to have a lot of disease — that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to and that spoke specifically to when people were maximally infectious."
CDC director by is licensed under

Follow us

Read our latest news on any of these social networks!

Get latest news delivered daily!

We will send you breaking news right to your inbox


Have a tip? Let us know!

Recent Articles

  • by:
  • Source: NY Post
  • 07/09/2025
...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams serves up cold truth after Andrew Cuomo pushes him to drop re-election bid: ‘You just lost’

Eric Adams tore into Andrew Cuomo Monday and claimed the ex-governor had the gall to ask the mayor to leave the Big Apple mayoral race — calling it the “highest level of arrogance.”

...
"Unknown actor" using AI to impersonate Rubio, State Department cable shows

An "unknown actor" created a Signal account and used artificial intelligence to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and contact government and foreign officials, according to a State Department cable obtained by CBS News.

  • by:
  • Source: CNBC
  • 07/09/2025
...
Trump says he will impose 50% tariff on copper imports

President Donald Trump said he will impose a 50% tariff on copper imports and suggested more steep sector-specific duties are on the way.

...
Netanyahu Tells Trump, at Dinner, He Nominated Him for Nobel Peace Prize

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed U.S. President Donald Trump during a dinner at the White House on Monday night he had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his Middle East policies.