“There’s growing confusion today, a week after the CDC changed its guidelines, cutting down isolation or quarantine for people with coronavirus from ten days to five.
“The rise in omicron cases prompting the CDC to lower the days after research shows the transmission phase of the variant happens only a few days before someone shows symptoms and a few days after.
““The time from exposure to the time of onset of symptoms is much quicker with omicron, usually people are getting sick within two days,” said Dr. David Gude, Chief Operating Officer and practicing physician with the San-Antonio based Texas MedClinic.
“Gude said the omicron strain develops more quickly, and patients are able to clear the infection faster, cutting down the time an infected person could pass along the virus to others.”
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