Doctors follow "standards of practice" and these change over time as new research is done. My favorite change in standard of practice is that digital exams of the prostate are no longer done for everyone at your routine check-up.Yet another flip?
Like the standard to quarantine the healthy rather than just the ill? When in history has that ever been done?Doctors follow "standards of practice" and these change over time as new research is done. My favorite change in standard of practice is that digital exams of the prostate are no longer done for everyone at your routine check-up.
With COVID they were almost totally in the dark when it first emerged so standards of practice have changed "too many times" from our perspective as non-medical professionals.
A change in standard of practice does not mean the medical profession cannot be trusted.
The very definition of quarantine has it’s origins in the isolation of the asymptomaticLike the standard to quarantine the healthy rather than just the ill? When in history has that ever been done?
We know now its a hoax and not serious at all.If a serious disease is easily transmitted and takes a long time for symptoms to develop, then quarantining healthy people makes sense. Let's be careful about judging the initial decision to quarantine everyone. We did not really know how serious this disease was in February.
I think the real question is why quarantines have been maintained in some states even after we knew more about the disease. Yes - I'd say a prolonged lockdown, like in CA, is political.
The 1918 Pandemic included quarantine and other practices recommended today.Like the standard to quarantine the healthy rather than just the ill? When in history has that ever been done?
Quarantining of healthy people?The 1918 Pandemic included quarantine and other practices recommended today.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm
YesQuarantining of healthy people?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559034/Various responses to the [Influenza] pandemic were tried. Health authorities in major cities of the Western world implemented a range of disease-containment strategies, including the closure of schools, churches, and theaters and the suspension of public gatherings. In Paris, a sporting event, in which 10,000 youths were to participate, was postponed (36). Yale University canceled all on-campus public meetings, and some churches in Italy suspended confessions and funeral ceremonies. Physicians encouraged the use of measures like respiratory hygiene and social distancing.
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