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A lot of people have said a lot of unbelievably dumb shit about how the CDC's recommendations must have been to protect the health care system. "Surely."

But, no, the CDC was also making the same sort of awful recommendations to health care facilities, too.

It helps here if you understand what CDC recommendations are and how they work – politically, as much as anything.

As a practical matter, in healthcare, CDC recommendations are no more recommendations than an IETF RFC is an actual "request for comment": it's the medical equivalent of a specification. It establishes the minimum standard of care or practice.

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