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https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068731487/delta-ceo-asks-cdc-to-cut-quarantine

The newest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance shortening the isolation period for those with COVID-19 from 10 days to five days has led to a growing concern about its impact on essential workers such as nurses and airline staff.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the decision to change the guidelines was, in part, to "keep the critical functions of society open and operating."

"We started to see challenges with ... airline flights and other areas. We started first with doing the health care workers last week to make sure that we could make keep our hospitals functioning safely and open," Walensky told NPR on Tuesday.

The CDC says its decision is also based on the science showing that a majority of COVID-19 illnesses get passed around in the first few days of the infection. Other public health experts say that's true but there's still a chance that transmission to others could happen after the five-day benchmark

Nelson's position is at odds with some airlines leaders. The CDC's decision comes days after Delta Airline's CEO sent Walensky a letter advocating for a shorter isolation period.

In the letter, CEO Ed Bastian along with the airline's medical adviser and chief health officer asks Walensky to consider shortening the isolation period to five days for those who experience a breakthrough infection.

It doesn't get anymore blatant than this.