So my friend who was dx with COVID works for 2 different places. One is attached to a hospital group in Mass. The other is a place out of Ohio. She is still symptomatic but cannot get a straight answer out of anyone for what would constitute return to work guidelines. Until recently Healthcare workers had to have 2 negative tests. Now they have changed the guidelines to time based or not, depending on availability of testing, need of the worker, location and what the local Health Dept says. Neither of the places has a clear answer and they have changed what they tell her each time she talks to them.
I cannot find any basis for the change to time based in any of the sites I saw. CDC is a sh1t show- truly embarrassing. No actual guidance- changed the guidelines with no citations and saying it should be State by State. Up To Date, which is the gold standard, appears to say the guidelines are changed to be looser because of need but gives no recommendation for what would be best practices.
This is a really disturbing development. We have left the WHO. We have the CDC which is no longer providing legitimate medical guidance (the experts continue to speak up but by the time stuff is posted it is gutted and diluted). I am fairly good at ferreting out stuff but I shouldn't have to try to find it on international sites. We used to be cutting edge. Not boding well. THis isn't going to be over soon and we have no reliable centralized resource- just a bunch of different medical entities trying to do the best they can with an inept gov't agency that is supposed to be organizing info and providing guidance.