The surge may be over, but numbers are still rising here.
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding such changes should be welcomed, calling them"well-timed and consistent with the science" that could be used to determine health policy on the virus going forward. The new system, which makes masking recommendations on the risk level for poor outcomes by county based on hospital capacity, now places more than 70 percent of the U.S. under the lowest risk designation.
"A virus and a population interact in a dizzyingly dynamic system, with mutations and layering immunity forming different profiles of population-wide risk at different times," Jha wrote."Policy does and should recognize when these factors have changed enough to justify new approaches."Still, Jha argues that this doesn't mean specific safety protocols will disappear forever.
"I can think back to just last week when I had to put someone on a breathing machine who was unvaccinated, so this continues to be with us,"."I could imagine a time this summer or fall [when people who] tested positive for COVID in the last three months will think that they have ongoing immunity, and I think that's not true," he added.But until that time, Jha says considering the appropriate data will help move the nation into the next phase of handling COVID.
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