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FILE - A wellness idiosyncratic administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination session astatine the Norristown Public Health Center successful Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted revised guidelines connected Thursday, Dec. 23, that are loosening rules that telephone connected wellness attraction workers to enactment retired of enactment for 10 days if they trial affirmative for COVID-19. Those workers volition beryllium allowed to travel backmost to enactment aft 7 days if they trial antagonistic and dont person symptoms. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

NEW YORK – Worried that a caller COVID-19 question could overwhelm understaffed U.S. hospitals, national officials connected Thursday loosened rules that telephone connected wellness attraction workers to enactment retired of enactment for 10 days if they trial positive.

Those workers present volition beryllium allowed to travel backmost to enactment aft 7 days if they trial antagonistic and don't person symptoms. Isolation clip tin beryllium chopped if determination are terrible staffing shortages, according to the caller Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.

“As the wellness attraction assemblage prepares for an anticipated surge successful patients owed to omicron, CDC is updating our recommendations to bespeak what we cognize astir corruption and vulnerability successful the discourse of vaccination and booster doses," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said successful a statement.

"Our extremity is to support wellness attraction unit and patients safe, and to code and forestall undue load connected our healthcare facilities," she added.

Isolation is designed to support infected radical distant from uninfected people, to forestall further dispersed of the virus.

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CDC officials person advised that successful calculating the 10-day isolation period, the archetypal time should beryllium the archetypal afloat time aft symptoms archetypal developed oregon aft a affirmative test. If a idiosyncratic develops symptoms sometime aft a affirmative COVID-19 test, the quarantine play indispensable restart, opening 1 time aft the symptoms develop.

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