CDC's new COVID recommendations - What patient and worker advocacy organizations are saying -- It is not good.
Below are additional supporting resources from major organizations of scientists, and worker and patient advocacy organizations concerned about the recent CDC Decision.
Science Friday (on NPR -- March 15, 2024): What We Know After 4 Years Of COVID-19 https://lnkd.in/evsV8kpE
National Nurses United (Largest Nurses Union in the United States)March 7, 2024 Email: "We’ll be blunt, these latest CDC guidelines are a complete disappointment. The CDC’s updated guidance for respiratory viruses fails to recognize the significant health threat that Covid continues to pose, including the threat of Long Covid. Shortening the Covid isolation guidance from five days to potentially just 24 hours based on the presence of fever ignores the available and extensive scientific evidence that people with Covid-19 infections often remain infectious well beyond five days." Sign Petition: https://lnkd.in/eh4gb6a6
American Association of Kidney Patients (One of the largests association of immunocompromised patients)"New CDC Respiratory Guidance Ignores Kidney Patient Concerns" "CDC’s failure to effectively engage stakeholders in policy development and communications has led to other recent controversies. The agency has been under public and media scrutiny related to the management of the HICPAC and charges over a lack of transparency, failure to engage a broad-range of scientific experts, and selective use of evidence to develop new, draft infection control guidelines for health facilities, including hospitals (Read FORBES article / Read FORBES article)." "The propensity of the virus to be spread by infected but otherwise healthy individuals2, along with the suboptimal efficacy of the updated booster to prevent hospitalizations in the general adult population3, are of great concern. Studies continue to show that immunocompromised and immunosuppressed individuals are more likely to experience severe complications if infected with the virus and yet the guidelines do not offer the level of protection necessary to mitigate this heightened risk." https://lnkd.in/e3Vm2dzH
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