Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com.

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We have got that story. Plus, where's Kate? But first, happy fourth cufaversary, everybody.

It's the fourth year of two weeks to flatten the curve, and we begin with the question.

Why is the CDC now treating COVID like it's the flu?

Grabbing this from NYMag.com, the Center for Disease Control

and Prevention. On Friday, mothballed its long-standing COVID isolation guidance,

announcing that people no longer need to isolate for five days after catching the coronavirus.

Instead, per the CDC, they should stay home if they feel sick, but can leave home and

resume normal activities as soon as their symptoms are getting better and it's been a day

since they had a fever without the help of fever reducing medication. That means that the CDC is

both now streamlining and simplifying its recommendations and advising people to treat their

COVID infections like they

would the flu or any other respiratory illness, even though the novel coronavirus is nothing like the flu

or other common respiratory viruses. Many public health experts are backing the move, which is the

first major change the CDC is made to the guidance since it reduced the isolation period from 10 days

to five days in late 2021 and had been previewed last month in a report of course by the Amazon Post.

The CDC and the experts supporting the plan have noted that it makes sense for the agency

to align its isolation guidance with how everyone's living with COVID for four years

after the start of the pandemic. That new normal is that COVID isn't going away and people are still

catching it, but the threat it poses and the harm it causes continue to decline somehow, oh, thanks to

virtually everyone having some form of immunity owing to prior infection

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