Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

? Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ryz4Ggo2Gkk   If you can obtain an accurate CoVid viral test result within 1-2 days of testing at the conclusion of a quarantine, Yale researchers suggest that the length of quarantine may be safely reduced from 14 to 7-8 days.  Their study has just been pre-published online by medrixiv.org.     The researchers studied 4,040 CoVid tests to offshore oil rig workers.  They determined that quarantine exit testing versus entry testing was most effective for preventing discharge of infectious persons into the general population.   If you are quarantining, at day 7 get a CoVid PCR test.  As soon as you receive a negative test result, it is safe for you to end your quarantine.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.20211631v3.full.pdf   #covid #quarantine #test