five days. if the test comes back positive, but only if you chose to take it, right. optional. the person should continue to isolate for a total of 10 days. the guidance stopped short for everyone to get tested before leaving isolation. if i get a bad job explaining what the guidance is, it s not my fault, trust me. joining me now cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and author of keep keep sharp, build a better brain at any age. they have had a really tough job the last few years. but i can t understand what they are saying and why. can you explain it? and. well, unfortunately, john, it is pretty confusing. it is going to create these lines as we have seen throughout the pandemic. if you want to do the right thing and you can get your hands on a test, you will do the right
you look at south africa and germany around the world that s been dealing with this. you see the number of cases start to decline over a period of a few weeks. that s likely to happen here. right now it s situation of open schools and you are testing and a lot of people come back and they test positive, the current guidelines, five days of isolation, things start to shutdown again. you get stutter stepping over the next few weeks. it makes sense to open things up and know that people who have immunity and protected test as much as we can. we still don t have enough testing in this country is a failure, a surprising one considering how long we have been talking about this. over the next few weeks the number will come down and you will have the sort of return and work and school without the stutter stepping we are seeing right now. dr. gupta, i would like to turn to your book keep sharp,
a familiar face and we are glad to have him with us today. dr. sanjay gupta, his best selling book keep sharp, it s out now in paperback, so good to have you with us, we ll take any book you write because it means we get to talk to you on our network. covid is here and we have to learn with it and it s not going away. we have to get on with our lives and learn how to manage it. is that the right approach? yes, i think so. we have known probably since the spring of last year that this was becoming endemic where it s persistent in society. two issues which we brought up. hospitals are becoming
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