CALLS for Brits to be forced back into isolation if they get Covid have been made – as scientists say people are still infectious after five days. Self isolation periods were scrapped after a…
They monitored people closely from when they were first exposed - to when they stopped being infectious.said: "Before this study we were missing half of the picture about infectiousness, because it’s hard to know when people are first exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and when they first become infectious.
"This is fundamental to controlling any pandemic and has not been previously defined for any respiratory infection in the community." However, many companies no longer pay their employees to self-isolate if they have the bug - meaning Brits will lose money from self-isolating - all in the midst of aBut the medics stated that not isolating is allowing cases to spread in the community: "Our empirical data suggest that a crude five-day self-isolation period releases two-thirds of still-infectious cases into the community, albeit with a 43 per cent reduction in mean log-infectious viral load relative to peak viral load.
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