Feb. 23, 2024 – Is shorter better? Or just more practical? The CDC is reportedly going to cut its COVID-19 isolation recommendations down from 5 days to 24 hours starting in April.including the JN.1 variant, and the reality that many people struggle to forgo work or school for days at a time.
One danger is people will interpret the change to mean COVID is less serious, he said. It could create the mistaken impression that “something changed all of a sudden.” If the CDC does move forward with the recommendation, Bruce Farber, MD, chief public health and epidemiology officer at Northwell Health in New York, hopes they will stay flexible because COVID is unpredictable. “If the situation changes and there is a big peak in the fall … this should be rethought.”