The shift in focus away from case counts could lead to a delay in much-needed public health interventions
The guidelines’ chief innovation is to combine case levels with hospitalization figures — those related to hospital admissions as well as occupancy levels of staffed beds — rather than using case numbers alone. Under the old guidelines, a case rate of 50 per 100,000 in a county was enough to trigger a recommendation that individuals mask indoors; now the case rate must be four times that for the recommendation to kick in. (At lowercase rates, high hospitalization numbers can also trigger masking recommendations.)..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/08/cdc-mask-guidance-mistake/
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