Testing is the only answer
Apr 17, 2020
3 minutes
By Arthur Caplan and Robert Bazell
The CDC just announced new guidelines for “critical” employees to return to work after possible COVID-19 exposure. Take your temperature often. Wear a mask. Stay 6 ft. away from others when possible. Go home if you feel sick. It is well-intentioned advice. But it is not enough—not for “critical” workers, however defined, or for the rest of us.
Until we have a vaccine, which is likely a year or more off, or truly effective treatments, which may be just as far in the future, the answer is,
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