It was expected and ESPN announces that the NBA has reached an agreement with the players’ union to potentially reduce the duration of isolation following contamination with Covid-19, and reduce it from 10 to 6 days.
This decision is retroactive, which means that quite a few players, and even coaches, currently in quarantine, could be released sooner than expected.
However, the league says not all infected players will be able to come out of their isolation after just 6 days. For this, it will indeed require a low viral load (Ct> 35), the studies on which the NBA are based showing that people in this case are no longer contagious after five or six days.
Clearly, vaccinated and asymptomatic players (but also coaches and referees) will now be released from their quarantine much faster. Enough to relieve a lot of franchises, but also the NBA, which could worry about the spectacle displayed by teams forced to recruit medical “jokers” at the last minute.
