The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday it would wind down much of its remaining guidance specifically targeted at COVID-19, including an official end to a pandemic-era plea for Americans to stay home for five days after testing positive.
The agency cited improvements in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths inflicted by the virus this past season for the change.
"COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses," the agency said Friday in a report justifying its decision.
Instead of offering recommendations specific for COVID-19, the agency said it would switch to offer a "unified, practical approach to addressing risk" from the virus alongside influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
"We're taking this unified approach so things can be simpler and more likely to be followed. And if they're easier and more likely to be followed, then we're protecting everyone, right? So the folks who are more vulnerable were top of mind when we did this," CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen told CBS News.
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She's kidding, right? They are just dumbing down and pandering to the lowest common denominator of those people who haven't been following any COVID guidelines anyway! How this will protect vulnerable people is beyond me, but we're going to be in even bigger trouble now.
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