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I'm a scientist who researched all health agency guidelines around the world last year re-Covid. Delta has shortened a lot of the timelines.

1. Your son MUST isolate until he gets a negative PCR test. That's a given.  He has to contact all the people with whom he may have been in close contact in the past week (usually Delta manifests itself in less than 4 days).

2. You and the rest of the household are close contacts and must get PCR tests ASAP, [b]and isolate until they're negative. That's also a given.[/b] You can get them done at Same Day Testing. They have slots every day, look on their website. With insurance it's free.

3. But you don't need to isolate if your PCR test is negative. That's crazy, and against all guidelines.

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Whether or not you like it, that's not what the CDC says for vaccinated people. It's better to test 4-5 days after exposure as long as there are no symptoms.[/quote]

That was true pre-Delta. Delta replicates 1000 times faster in the upper respiratory tract, so you can test sooner than that.

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Ok, well this is what the CDC says, Delta expert: "If you’ve had close contact with someone who has COVID-19, you should get tested 3-5 days after your exposure, even if you don’t have symptoms. You should also wear a mask indoors in public for 14 days following exposure or until your test result is negative. You should isolate for 10 days if your test result is positive."

[url]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html[/url]
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