'It appears that the Center for Disease has given up on Control and Prevention.'
. "High levels of population immunity due to vaccination and previous infection, and the many tools that we have available to protect people from severe illness and death, have put us in a different place."reports, some experts see the "streamlined" guidelines — which appear to be much less focused on preventing the spread of the disease, and much more focused on preventing severe illness — as an exciting sign of forward movement.
"I think this a welcome change," Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told theOther experts, however, believe that the CDC is more or less just submitting to public pressure. "I think [the CDC is] attempting to meet up with the reality that everyone in the public is pretty much done with this pandemic," Michael T.
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