Use your common sense: self-isolating is still essential if you have Covid | Devi Sridhar
While politicians race to return to ‘normal’, scientists still have three major concerns about the future of the pandemic
The prime minister’s pledge to scrap legally enforced isolation for people in England with Covid-19 flies in the face of basic infectious disease management, which tells us to avoid infecting other people when you are infectious. It is a basic public health protection, like others we have in daily life: speed limits on roads, the banning of smoking indoors, and laws against drink driving. These limit our freedoms to a certain extent, but we have accepted that “infringement” in order to have a safer and healthier society.
I agree that we need to get back to “normality” but it’s a question of timing, and now isn’t the right time.
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