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Applied statistician at UW-Madison, interested in longitudinal data analysis, reproducible workflows, and Alzheimer's disease. Views mine; all my errors are independent.

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There are many people who can't afford to take days off work even when they are ill. The CDC should be recommending that employers give workers paid sick leave, not making it easier for bosses to exploit workers by saying it's fine to work when you are sick.

emjonaitis ,
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@luckytran This is my biggest concern too -- uncontrolled transmission is already priced in to our present, but I'm not as sure that the same is true for sick leave.

luckytran , to random
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The CDC wants to stop telling people to isolate for five days when they are sick with COVID. This is a reckless, anti-public health policy that contravenes science, increases disease spread, and puts everyone at greater risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/13/covid-isolation-guidelines-cdc-change/

emjonaitis ,
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@luckytran What do you think the practical outcome will be on transmission? I've been assuming for the past two years that there's aerosolized virus in every indoor space I'm in, unless I have reason to believe otherwise. My kid's school has generally followed CDC guidance, and nevertheless its aerosol sampler indicates the presence of SARS-CoV-2 has been a constant all year. I do wish that the guidance were constructed to follow evidence rather than to eliminate evidence, but I think that horse has been gone for a while now.

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