Testing sites reopen after closing for holiday weekend

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Testing sites crossed Northeast Florida reopened Monday aft they were closed implicit the vacation weekend.

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. – Testing sites crossed Northeast Florida reopened Monday aft they were closed implicit the vacation weekend.

Before the holiday, the U.S. broke different grounds of caller cases -- with much than 2 million.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) present estimates arsenic galore arsenic 1 successful 3 radical successful the U.S. has been infected. Doctors are acrophobic numbers volition turn arsenic adults instrumentality to enactment and students instrumentality to the classroom. To assistance halt the spread, the bureau is looking to adhd a antagonistic trial on with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who drawback the coronavirus.

The caller guidelines shortened the magnitude of the isolation play from 10 to 5 days for those infected with covid who don’t person symptoms. After the 5 days, individuals are asked to deterioration a disguise erstwhile astir others for different 5 days.

List: COVID-19 investigating sites successful Northeast Florida

According to the CDC, transmission mostly happens 1 oregon 2 days earlier radical commencement having symptoms and 2 to 3 days after.

Health officials were besides acrophobic that the precocious fig of radical investigating affirmative for coronavirus and being forced to isolate could origin large disruptions to the economy. Especially with indispensable workers.

Last week the Neptune Beach investigating tract had to temporarily crook radical distant to mitigate the agelong lines and not overwhelm the staff.

On Monday, a idiosyncratic told News4Jax they were investigating 250 people. Officers had to unopen down the enactment astir 6:45 a.m. due to the fact that they were spilling retired onto Atlantic Boulevard.

The emergence successful the fig of cases, particularly during the vacation season, has led to galore much radical getting tested reported much than 75,900 caller cases present successful Florida.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said looking again, a antagonistic trial could beryllium added to the five-day isolation recommendations.

“The lone trouble is, is that erstwhile you person truthful many, galore cases, adjacent if the complaint of hospitalization is little with Omicron than it is with Delta, there’s inactive the information that you’re gonna person a surging of hospitalizations that mightiness accent the healthcare system,” Dr. Fauci said.

Just a mates of weeks agone the unit astatine the Neptune Beach investigating tract went from investigating astir 50 radical each time to investigating hundreds. The tract is unfastened until 3:00 p.m.

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