CDC Shortens Covid Isolation Period From 10 To 5 Days

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The CDC just updated its guidelines for people who get Covid-19 or are exposed to it, shortening quarantine times for many Americas as the Omicron variant surges across the country. Dr. Anthony Fauci joins to explain the new changes. This comes during a perilous week in the pandemic with new cases exploding, tests in short supply and high demand, and any more flights being cancelled. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.2	Happening now, breaking news. The CDC just updated its guidelines for people who
0:37.4	get COVID or are exposed to it. Shortening isolation and quarantine times for many Americans as the omercron
0:44.0	variant tears across the country. Dr Anthony Fauchy joins us live to explain
0:48.7	the changes. This comes during a perilous week in the omerkron crisis with new cases exploding COVID
0:55.0	tests in short supply and high demand and many more flights and holiday events cancelled.
1:00.3	We're covering it all this hour.
1:02.0	Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.
1:05.0	We'll Flitzer us off today.
1:06.0	I'm Jim Acosta and you're in the situation. This is an
1:24.3	This is CNN breaking news and we begin with the breaking news on the CDC's new recommendations on how long COVID patients should isolate themselves shorting the time from 10 to 5 days. Let's go right to CNN's Tom
1:29.5	Foreman. Tom this is huge news. Tell us more about these new guidelines.
1:34.0	Jim, we've been expecting a change like this for several days now.
1:37.0	Like Omicron itself, it's been moving very, very swiftly,
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