The Fond du Lac County Health Department has updated it’s COVID-19 quarantine and isolation guidance to align with new CDC recommendations. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says those recommendations reduce the recommended time in isolation for those in the general population with COVID-19 from 10 to five days. “What they’re saying is that at this point of what they they know with the Omicron variant, it transmits much more quickly but that transmission occurs typically two days prior to the onset of symptoms and then continues to occur two to three days after,” Mueller told WFDL news. The CDC is still recommending a 10 day isolation period for school children or school staff who test positive.
