{"id":1169280,"date":"2021-12-29T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169280"},"modified":"2021-12-29T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:34:31","slug":"as-much-to-do-with-business-as-it-did-with-science-cnns-kaitlan-collins-corners-cdc-director-on-new-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-much-to-do-with-business-as-it-did-with-science-cnns-kaitlan-collins-corners-cdc-director-on-new-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As Much To Do With Business As It Did With Science\u2019: CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins Corners CDC Director On New Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-much-to-do-with-business-as-it-did-with-science-cnns-kaitlan-collins-corners-cdc-director-on-new-guidelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169280&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a Wednesday morning interview, asking whether the newly released guidelines on quarantining and testing those with COVID-19 infection had more to do with business than they did with science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to start with the change in the CDC guidance,\u201d Collins began, pointing to the announcement that the regular recommended quarantine for those infected with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-drastically-drops-estimate-of-omicron-cases-in-u-s\/\">COVID-19<\/a> had been reduced from 10 days to five days for asymptomatic people \u2014 just half of what it was previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how did the CDC settle on five days for everyone?\u201d Collins asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at several areas of science here. First, the science of how much how much transmission happens in the period of time after you\u2019re infected. We know that the most amount of transmission occurs in those one to two days before you develop symptoms, those two to three days after you develop symptoms. If you map that out, the five days account for someone between 85% to 90% of all transmission that occurs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-cdc-announces-shortened-covid-19-quarantine-recommendations\/\">Walensky<\/a> explained. \u201cSo we really wanted to make sure that during the first five days you \u2014 were spent in isolation, that\u2019s where most of it occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there is this tail end period of time in the last five days where we are asking you to mask. But the other things we were looking at is the epidemiology here. We are seeing and expecting even more cases of this Omicron variant. Many of those cases are mildly symptomatic, if not asymptomatic,\u201d Walensky continued. \u201cAnd then finally the behavioral science. What will people actually do when they get back to work?\u2026If we can get them to isolate, we want to make sure they are isolating in the first five days when they are maximally infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo from what you are saying, it sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did with the science,\u201d Collins pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,\u201d Walensky replied, adding, \u201cWe have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic. Some science has demonstrated that less than a third of people are isolating when they need to. We really want to make sure we have guidance in this moment where we were going to have a lot of disease that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to, and that spoke to specifically when people were maximally infectious. So it really spoke to both behaviors and to what people were able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIt really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,\u201d CDC Director Walensky says on why the CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days if you\u2019re asymptomatic. Our full interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rO7blPFiPj\">pic.twitter.com\/rO7blPFiPj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1476176642250842114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walensky added that the rapidly increasing number of milder cases driven by the Omicron variant was likely to create a situation in which many people felt well enough to return to work \u2014 making them less willing to self-isolate even if they might still test positive for the disease \u2014 and the shortening isolation period was designed to help better target the days they might be most infectious and encourage them to stay home for that period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a Wednesday morning interview, asking whether the newly released guidelines on quarantining and testing those with COVID-19 infection had more to do with business than they did with science. \u201cI want to start with the change in the CDC guidance,\u201d Collins began, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}