Dr Eric Topol writes that "‘Living with Covid’ should be countered by containing the virus once and for all" and that the "CDC’s position should be countered by exploiting the science and our clear capabilities of fully containing the virus."
He says, "With the revised guidelines, the CDC continue to push a contrived metric which they call 'community level' to 'know your risk for serious illness'. As defined by the CDC website, this 'is determined by the higher of the new admissions and inpatient beds metrics, based on the current level of new cases per 100,000 population in the past 7 days'. This is not appropriate guidance since Americans would be rightfully concerned about getting infected, not stressing hospital resources in their community. The right United States map, is the 'community transmission' which simply reflects the number of confirmed cases in the past seven days per region. That map currently shows that 94% of the country’s population is at high-risk of transmitting Covid whereas the community level map is only 39.7%.
It is a deceptive way for CDC to present a rose-colored-glasses semblance of lower risk. That, too, is unnecessarily promoting spread of Covid to others, especially including the vulnerable, that it purports to want to protect. No less, this is further exacerbating the toll of long Covid, a condition that millions of Americans are suffering from, due to the virus’s massive, unbridled spread throughout the pandemic."
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Above is the CDC's Community Transmission Map for today; this is the map they'd prefer you not see.
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