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What Next TBD: We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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There's no way to remove politics from public health. Guest: Tim Requarth Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Also this morning, the COVID pandemic appears to be entering a new phase with the CDC's announcement

1:09.7

of sweeping updates to its guidelines.

1:15.6

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released yet another update about how we should or shouldn't protect ourselves from COVID-19.

1:24.6

Gone were quarantines for people who'd been exposed to the virus, social distancing

1:28.7

requirements, and surveillance testing. Vaccines were still heavily emphasized, and the agency

1:34.6

pointed out that we have a lot more tools to fight COVID now than we used to. But the new guidelines

1:40.6

mark a tonal shift. I asked Tim Rickwarth, who writes about COVID for Slate, to break

1:46.5

them down for me. The basic gist of them is it's no longer, hey, you know, keep your distance,

1:52.7

try to do this, do this, et cetera. It's, okay, you know, the people who need to figure out how

1:58.2

to protect yourselves, everybody else, just go on with your

2:01.2

life. It's part of a change from a more collective approach to weathering the pandemic,

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