Scientists worry that the decision to halve the isolation time for asymptomatic and rapidly recovering patients was not driven by public health reasons. Tobias Kurth, professor of public health and epidemiology at Charite Hospital in Berlin, said: “This is certainly not a public health guideline, but is more inclined to ensure that we can maintain basic operations, so it’s more like It is an economic criterion."
He believes that this can be done in certain areas, but it cannot be regarded as a general rule. Hyde also agrees, “The worry is politics, not science, which is driving this decision.” Hodcroft said that the real solution to the shortage of workers in the workplace is to reduce the number of confirmed diagnoses.
Hodcroft said: "If you bring people who are still at risk of infection back to the work environment, you may promote transmission, allow more people to be infected, and may make the problem persist for a long time."
Another question is, if asymptomatic people have not been quarantined long enough and no negative test is required, the infection rate will rise further, how will the hospital respond.
Kurt warned that in countries facing a wave of epidemics fueled by Omi Keron, such as the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Germany, a large number of cases will lead to the collapse of the health care system.
Hyde said: "It seems really bad to relax the restrictions now, the Omi Keron variant spreads so quickly; I don't see how the hospital system will deal with this situation."