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Originally Posted by cdcox
If you read a story about this, it isn’t nearly the reversal it seems. She strongly distinguishes between truly asymptomatic, mildly symptomatic, and pre symptomatic. It is only the first group that they are claiming are rare to transmit. Pre-symptomatic individuals are still thought to be important in disease transmission. It doesn’t change policy with respect to assuming anyone you encounter can be infectious or even yourself. The big policy difference this makes is we don’t need to contact trace asymptomatic individuals.
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Also it was just 1 doctor on the panel and not an official position.