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This piece of news is scarier: Sacramento County Gives Up On Automatic 14-Day Quarantines https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/10/813990993/coron

• oefrha 7y ago
  > Effective immediately, people in Sacramento County should not quarantine themselves if they've been exposed to the COVID-19. Instead, they should go into isolation only if they begin to show symptoms of the respiratory virus, the county's health department says. > Sacramento County has at least 10 coronavirus cases, including one person who recovered. 10 cases and they already gave up on quarantines? The decision maker either knows more about unpublished cases or don’t understand infectious diseases at all... What a great way to make sure more people “show symptoms” two weeks down the road.
• mistersquid 7y ago
  That article was full of equivocations and misdirection, with CDC Director Nancy Messonnier wriggling out of any leadership on establishing federal guidelines for containment and mitigation and hapless (?) Dr. Peter Beilenson, head of Sacramento County's Department of Health Services, rhetorically throwing up his arms and embracing mitigation because Sacramento County failed to track infections. All the while, the author of the piece is clearly trying to convince the reader that mitigation (which in Sacramento County means “self-quarantine only in cases showing symptoms”) is adequate if not superior to containment.