My name is Avril. I'm a nurse. I'm James. I work in Houston and I'm a

essential worker. As an essential worker, I do believe that the five day quarantine is too

little of a time and quite frankly, a lot of people are not even adhering to that.

We actually work somewhere or there's multiple entities. We frequently have

COVID scares or someone who has found a test positive. We don't have the same

instructions about how long to stay home. A different company will say 10,

one says five. I do believe that you need to have a test, at least a negative test,

to come back to work. I work in with geriatric population and that is a very

population with a huge comorbidities quite often. We're very confused and most of us

have family members that we go home to every day and some of those are immunocompromised.

So we don't want this to make it home. Avril, James, thanks for leaving us those

messages. The CDC says people who've tested positive for COVID-19 only need to

isolate themselves for five days. That's as long as they wear a mask in public

afterwards and are asymptomatic or their, quote, symptoms are resolving. Some

members of the medical community don't think five days is long enough, especially

without a testing requirement. Last week the American Medical Association, that's

the largest association of physicians in the country, criticized the CDC's

guidelines saying that people could still spread the virus after five days. And

the physicians from the AMA aren't the only ones who are concerned. Essential

workers will likely bear the brunt of the CDC's decision to shorten the isolation

period. Staffing shortages have plagued hospitals, airlines and schools as

workers fall ill with the virus. The nation's economy and critical

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