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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/02/2024

I just published a letter in @washingtonpost.com on the CDC's potential change in COVID isolation guidelines. "COVID isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act like it is" Link: washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion: Covid isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act like it is

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s potential loosening of coronavirus isolation guidelines is a reckless, anti-public health policy that goes against science, encourages disease spread and puts everyone at greater risk. The bare minimum we should have learned from a devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when we are sick. Yet, inexplicably, by caving in to corporate interests, governments are encouraging people to not even do the bare minimum.

The truth is that covid is still killing and disabling way too many people, and too many people are locked out of society and can’t even access medical care safely because of high levels of covid transmission. We still need science-based isolation guidance, and we need better public health protections.

GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Thank you.