CDC director says new COVID-19 isolation rules were based on ‘what we thought people would be able to tolerate’

Business Insider

December 29, 2021

By Jake Epstein and Erin Schumaker

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday that the shortened COVID-19 isolation guidelines were based on what the CDC “thought people would be able to tolerate.”

“It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” Walensky told Katilan Collins on CNN, after she asked if the decision had as much to do with business as it did with science. 

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