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   Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:49:55 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

   The CDC wants to stop telling people to isolate for five days when they are sick with COVID. This is a reckless, anti-public health policy that contravenes science, increases disease spread, and puts everyone at greater risk.

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/13/covid-isolation-guidelines-cdc-change/

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     Sue Sullivan (suesullivan@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:49:54 JST Sue Sullivan

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     @luckytran Public health is dead, but they're throwing in a mention of fever to pretend it is not.

     What even is the point of saying stay home only while feverish? That is not in any way, shape, or form a measure of communicability or a recognized reducer of long #COVID risk.

     It is clear corporations are entirely in control, and they want bodies in offices and classrooms, consequences be damned. An unbelievably short-sighted policy of a sick society hell-bent on becoming sicker.

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     ikuo (ikuo1000@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:53:23 JST ikuo

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     @luckytran Pointedly, from the article: "Work on revising isolation guidance has been underway since last August but was paused in the fall as covid cases rose."

     Soooo... the CDC's own work on addressing covid prevalence was delayed due to high covid prevalence, and their answer is to implement a policy that will only help to increase covid prevalence?!

     🙄😠

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