Four years after the initial outbreak of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still updating its guidelines long after the existing ones have been ignored.
According to the Washington Post, the agency is currently in the process of updating its COVID-19 guidelines to eliminate a five-day quarantine expectation for individuals who test positive for the illness, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms.
The new guidelines will only recommend isolation for those who experience symptoms, and then only as long as symptoms persist. In other words, if you are sick, stay home.
But this latest update is part of a larger pattern of slow or unscientific actions by the CDC in response to COVID-19 that have completely destroyed the agency’s credibility.
Since the coronavirus first emerged in late 2019, the CDC has published guidelines and statements that contradict each other or have no basis in science.
Masks were useless, then they were only necessary for healthcare workers, then everyone had to wear them. Six feet of social distancing was required to keep people safe, then it was 3 feet.
And the vaccine was safe and effective and would stop the spread of the disease, that is until it was proven it did not. Then the CDC said it was never meant to stop the spread, only to mitigate symptoms.
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It has been well more than a year since COVID-19 has had any significant disruption or visible effect on the day-to-day lives of the public. By and large, we have all gone back to our lives the way they were before the pandemic, and if we are sick, we stay home.
By updating the guidelines to eliminate the five-day isolation period, the CDC is once again playing catch-up with everyone else who figured out long ago that if you feel sick, whether it’s COVID or the flu, you should stay home.
