PEORIA, Ill. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week relaxed some guidelines in regards to COVID-19.
Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine, says he thinks CDC’s recent move is a practicality situation.
“Decreasing the quarantine time to five days, no longer requiring people to isolate after exposures, and giving recommendations about changes in testing, how I would summarize it is, is that I think it’s a practical approach to our current situation,” Kasper says.
Kasper tells WMBD’s “The Greg and Dan Show” the CDC’s latest recommendations are quite a departure from how it handled the virus the past two-plus years.
It’s important to have buy-in of the whole community in how people receive COVID news, Kasper adds.
With overall fatigue, Kasper says its becomes human nature to tune it out, focusing on more pressing issues.
“I look at the ongoing role of main COVID news, as that it’s a consistent education for different individuals that have different levels of interest. Some people remain very interested, and some people have no interest,” Kasper says.
Kasper adds, “So, you’d like there to be a baseline level of communication that each person continues to receive, in case there’s a change in the Fall or Winter.”
Kasper believes people are now a lot less willing to receive information about COVID than they’ve been in the past.
