'Reckless and Dangerous': CDC's New, Shorter Covid-19 Isolation Guidelines Disturb Some Health Experts

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'Reckless and Dangerous': CDC's New, Shorter Covid-19 Isolation Guidelines Disturb Some Health Experts
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“It is a clear case of prioritizing corporate profit over public health,' one epidemiologist said.

, but only if the personnegative on two rapid lateral flow tests two days in a row. Strangely enough, the CDC did follow in the UK’s footsteps, but only for healthcare workers. As of last week, healthcare workers are now; however, “isolation time can be cut further if there are staffing shortages.”“It makes a great deal of sense to allow some people to leave isolation in fewer than 10 days,” CarlThe devil is in the details though.

The elephant in the room is that these changes do not appear to be solely motivated by the science surrounding covid-19 transmission. Just a week ago, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian with the CDC to cut the recommended isolation period for fully vaccinated people with breakthrough infections, do believe that this is more about getting people to work than keeping others safe from covid-19.“It is a clear case of prioritizing corporate profit over public health, and it’s happening at a time when many hospitals are starting to become overwhelmed with covid-19 patients,” Feldman said.

Indeed, the country is in the midst of a resurgent wave of the pandemic, with case loads rising in some areas to the highest levels seen yet, fueled by the emergence of the Omicron variant. And while Omicron does appear to be milder than the recently dominant Delta variant, it may not be

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