Quarantines should now be scaled back considerably, Bryan Walsh writes in Axios Future:
Quick tests and regular surveillance, identifying who's actually
infectious, can replace the two-week (or longer) isolation periods
that were common for travelers and people who might have been exposed.
Why it matters: a safe reopening of schools and workplaces.
"Quarantine is like taking a sledgehammer and saying: Whether you’re infected or not, we're going to put you in jail for 14 days in your home just in case," Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said at a recent briefing.
Most people who end up in quarantine, he noted, never actually contract COVID-19.
LINK: AXIOS source
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