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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 02:07 PM Apr 2020

Not the Onion! CDC looks at changing guidelines to get EXPOSED asymptomatic people back to work

[link:https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/cdc-looks-at-changing-guidelines-to-get-asymptomatic-people-back-to-work/522-2b66cedc-7461-4da4-b26b-f95eb32e6519|

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WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its guidelines for self-isolation to make it easier for those who have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus to return to work if they are asymptomatic.

The public health agency, in conjunction with the White House coronavirus task force, is considering an announcement as soon as Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday.

WTH? Scientists have consistently said people who are positive, yet asymptomatic, shed infectious virus!

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Not the Onion! CDC looks at changing guidelines to get EXPOSED asymptomatic people back to work (Original Post) SheltieLover Apr 2020 OP
That's insane! AirmensMom Apr 2020 #1
Setting the stage Chainfire Apr 2020 #2

AirmensMom

(14,642 posts)
1. That's insane!
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 02:22 PM
Apr 2020

Just because they don't have symptoms, doesn't mean they don't have COVID-19!

My husband was telling me about this story a few days ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-mass-testing-experiment-italian-town-covid-19-outbreak-1493183


Since the start of the outbreak, authorities have been testing and retesting each of the town's inhabitants. The tests were performed on people whether or not they were displaying symptoms of the disease. By some reports, between a half and three-quarters of carriers in Vò, were asymptomatic.
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