On Christmas Eve, the government announced that contacts of Covid-positive cases will no longer need to test or self-isolate if they aren't showing symptoms, while those who develop mild symptoms will be required to isolate for eight days, and anyone with severe symptoms will need to isolate for 10 days.
Three days later, the US CDC made major changes to their Covid isolation mandates - including cutting quarantine from 10 days to 5 days, and eliminating PCR tests from it's end-of-isolation guidelines.
As a related aside, informed Zero Hedge reader Doug R. notes regarding the CDC's 'substantial' revision in Omicron cases - where they now say it jumped from 3% infectivity to 58.6% of all cases over the course of two weeks: "Sorry, still not buying it. This still implies a level of infectivity that is hard to believe. My guess is the real starting point was it was already in the range of 10%-20% market share, and the CDC completely missed it. In part because it is so mild, but in larger part because they failed at their job of detecting and tracking. Because they are bad at what they do."
Now, Israel is mulling a new 'herd immunity' policy amid a second day of spiking cases.
Israel recorded almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases for the second day in a row, according to data released Wednesday, as the infection rate continued to climb and senior Health Ministry officials were reportedly weighing a switch to a policy of reaching herd immunity through mass infection.
Israeli officials estimate that within two weeks, Omicron will account for 90% of Covid-19 cases across the country.
Friday, December 31, 2021
Israel Mulls ‘Herd Immunity' Covid Strategy As Global ‘Pox Party' Pivot Continues
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