Just hours after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Dec. 27 that it was slashing the isolation time for people who test positive for COVID-19, European governments scrambled to follow the U.S. health agency’s lead.
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Children at the annual Epiphany parade in Madrid on Wednesday. Experts say holiday merrymaking helped spread the virus. Cellular biologist Salvador Macip, who advises Spain’s regional government in Catalonia, also views the scramble to change isolation times with concern. "Seven days, five daysthat's risky," he told Yahoo News. “We don't have enough data about Omicron yet. With the Delta variant there is sound science that the first five days are when you see most of the infections.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control is also wary of the ongoing reductions in isolation times, all the more since studies on Omicron are lacking. The agency, currently reviewing its guidelines, is particularly concerned about those who haven’t gotten COVID shots. “For unvaccinated individuals with COVID-19, no evidence exists to allow decreasing the isolation period,” an agency spokesperson noted in an email to Yahoo News.
But experts say the agency’s no-test-necessary policy only increases the chance that European countries won’t add testing requirements to their altered isolation policies either. “CDC has a lot of clout internationally,” said Lopez-Acuña, noting that Spain, for one, is listening to the CDC over European health agencies and its own government’s medical board of advisers, which did not endorse the changes to isolation protocol before they went into effect.
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