The highly transmissible Omicron variant has become prevalent in the population and the CDC updates and shortens recommended isolation and quarantine periods for asymptomatic general population from 10 days to 5 days, and wear a mask.
Two days later CDC quietly revised this guidance to even less restrictive: Exit quarantine after 5-day isolation not only when you are “asymptomatic,” but also when your “symptoms are resolving (without fever for 24 hours)”. [1, 2]
Through the pandemic 40% of “positive cases” of COVID-19 have been asymptomatic, meaning they never develop symptoms, but are diagnosed as positive and “infectious” via a flawed PCR test. Though a study of 10 million people demonstrated that transmission does not occur to any significance from an asymptomatic person.