Treat it like the flu!
The CDC has overhauled its COVID-19 isolation guidelines, saying the virus no longer represents the same threat to public health as it did several years ago.
A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives.
You should now follow the same precautions with Covid as you take with the flu, according to new guidelines from the CDC. That means staying home until you’ve gone a day with no fever and symptoms start to improve.
They are still pushing their other “precautions” saying for the next five days, you should consider “wearing a mask” but they are at last recognizing we can deal with this airborne virus as we would a regular cold or flu.
Until now, people who tested positive were advised to stay home for at least five days to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus to others. Now, the CDC is replacing that with general guidance for anyone who’s feverish, sneezing and coughing with a respiratory virus.
The gist?
“When you get sick, stay home and away from others,” says CDC director Dr. Mandy Cohen.
… and then one day, four years later on a Friday afternoon when no one was looking, the CDC admitted that the great conspiracy theory about Covid was true. pic.twitter.com/ZnLdovCyqY
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