CDC Shortens Recommended Covid-19 Isolation Time
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The CDC shortens their recommended Covid isolation period for the asymptomatic from ten days to five. Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, joins to discuss why he thinks the new CDC guidelines are what our country needs and why.
Plus, the GOP pushes to expand jobless benefits for workers who quit over vaccine mandates, the Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson joins to call out the new CDC isolation guidelines, how Covid could reshape businesses in 2022 and fentanyl overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.
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| 0:00.0 | The news continues now. So let's hand it over to Michael Smurkhanish and CNN tonight. |
| 0:06.5 | Jim, thank you. I am Michael Smurkhanish. Welcome to CNN tonight. Mary Christmas to all |
| 0:10.6 | who celebrated this weekend, although in some respects, it doesn't feel like the most |
| 0:14.6 | wonderful time of year. Instead, it feels like we're all just one degree of separation |
| 0:19.1 | from COVID right now. As if we all know someone who's just been infected or exposed to the |
| 0:24.4 | virus or perhaps you yourself just tested positive, vaxed or unvaxed, boosted or not with symptoms |
| 0:31.6 | or without. And now we're quarantined again. We have some breaking news on the quarantine |
| 0:36.6 | from this evening. New guidance from the CDC on how long those infected should stay isolated, |
| 0:42.5 | not just healthcare workers. This is a big change, so stay tuned for that. But what a way |
| 0:47.0 | to close out 2021 with an Omicron Bang. And that brings me to our survey questions tonight, |
| 0:52.8 | which year do you think history will judge worse 2020 or 2021? It's really a toss-up for |
| 0:58.9 | many of us, right? Let us know your vote by going to my website at Spurkhanish.com. We'll |
| 1:03.6 | share the results later in the program. And what will 2022 bring? Can we collectively |
| 1:09.6 | look forward to the new year as a nation that is still without unity on immunity and with |
| 1:15.1 | this virus testing us so much again, testing is still such a huge problem with this latest |
| 1:20.6 | variant crashing down on us, something even President Biden conceded on his call with |
| 1:25.4 | governors earlier today. |
| 1:28.9 | Seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more |
| 1:33.4 | work to do. I know the lines have gotten very long in some states. That's why I ordered |
| 1:38.1 | FEMA to set up pop-up sites and places with high demand to shorten the wait. We went |
| 1:43.3 | from no over-the-counter test in January to 46 million on October, 100 million in November, |
| 1:49.2 | and almost 200 million in December. But it's not enough. It's clearly not enough. |
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