The most recent CDC update says that “screening testing of asymptomatic people without known exposures” is no longer necessary.
, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revisions to pandemic guidance that clearly indicate a shift from the state-of-emergency approach that has been in place, at least on a federal level, since 2020., on Thursday afternoon.
The shift is meant to reduce some of the inconvenience and disruption both people and institutions have experienced in trying to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The new approach emphasizes finding and treating cases of serious illness, not stamping out every infection., which mandated that students in a classroom with a confirmed coronavirus exposure be tested regularly in order to keep attending school.
But the agency no longer emphasizes physical distancing, a popular practice from the early days of the pandemic that later became contentious. “Physical distance is just one component of how to protect yourself and others,” the revised guidance says.And while earlier rules treated vaccinated and unvaccinated people differently, that difference has now been erased, even if the CDC continues to urge vaccination as a baseline protection.
“I’m glad the CDC is finally meeting the moment and recognizing our broad health needs beyond simply not getting COVID,” Dr. Lucy McBride, a Washington internist and, wrote in an email to Yahoo News. “For kids in particular, it’s time to more appropriately balance the harms of COVID with the harms of mitigation measures. COVID is here to stay. Living in a perpetual state of emergency isn’t sustainable; it’s also not necessary with widespread availability of vaccines and therapeutics.
“Capitulation,” said Yale public health expert Gregg Gonsalves in a text message to Yahoo News. He and others have noted that hundreds continue to die daily from COVID-19, and that poor people and people of color have borne the brunt of the pandemic from the start.
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