About the CDC's New Isolation Guidelines

Here's an excerpt from a good SELF article titled 3 COVID Experts on Why the CDC’s Isolation Guidelines Are Bad for Public Health: You can still be contagious if you’re fever-free and feeling better.

"Given that COVID is still very contagious, Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and fellow at the FXB Center at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, says the newest guidelines are more confusing—and that they’re even misleading. She tells SELF that the CDC’s messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has 'ceased to be a threat,' and that it 'stops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.' According to Dr. Jirmanus, infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if you’re testing positive on rapid tests, you’re very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine."

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Read it all.  We need more exposés like this one, because most people are just hearing what they want to hear.