User Tag List

+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread: CDC expands definition of COVID-19 ‘close contact’

  1. #1
    Original Ranter
    Points: 388,252, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 0.2%
    Achievements:
    SocialRecommendation Second ClassOverdriveTagger First Class50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    MMC's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    70166
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    Chicago Illinois
    Posts
    89,892
    Points
    388,252
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    54,131
    Thanked 39,163x in 27,727 Posts
    Mentioned
    243 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    CDC expands definition of COVID-19 ‘close contact’

    New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded who should be considered a close contact of someone who tests positive for COVID-19.


    Under the old guidelines, the definition of a close contact was someone who "was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated."


    The changein guidance, announced in a Wednesday CDC statement, is slight but suggests that far more people should be tested based on contact tracing.


    According to the new CDC guidelines, a close contact is someone who spends 15 minutes or more with someone over the course of 24 hours. Previously, the guidance was restricted to 15 consecutive minutes. The CDC now advises anyone who had brief encounters with someone over the course of 24 hours that equal roughly 15 minutes to quarantine for two weeks.


    The update follows results released Tuesday from a study involving a correctional facility employee in Vermont who was diagnosed with COVID-19 despite never having a 15-minute encounter with anyone who tested positive. Instead, "during his 8-hour shift on July 28, the correctional officer was within 6 feet of an infectious [incarcerated or detained person] an estimated 22 times while the cell door was open, for an estimated 17 total minutes of cumulative exposure," according to the study.



    The study highlighted the importance of wearing masks — even though the employee wore a mask at all times, "during several encounters in a cell doorway or in the recreation room, IDPs did not wear masks."......snip~


    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...-close-contact



    Imagine that!
    History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

  2. #2
    Original Ranter
    Points: 388,252, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 0.2%
    Achievements:
    SocialRecommendation Second ClassOverdriveTagger First Class50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    MMC's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    70166
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    Chicago Illinois
    Posts
    89,892
    Points
    388,252
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    54,131
    Thanked 39,163x in 27,727 Posts
    Mentioned
    243 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    The leftness must have been worried, huh?
    History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

+ Reply to Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts