For months, New York sent more than 4,300 recovering elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes because of a Coumo directive. I don't get how this isn't the biggest news. The core issues aren't the beaches, the parks or the unmasked joggers passing by.https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-count-4300-virus-patients-ny-nursing-homes-70825470 …
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Aaron Richterman, MD Retweeted Aaron Richterman, MD
To be fair, unlikely that most can transmit infection post-discharge https://twitter.com/aaronrichterman/status/1262726787559292934?s=21 …https://twitter.com/AaronRichterman/status/1262726787559292934 …
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Aaron Richterman, MD @AaronRichtermanYesterday we argued that test-based clearance for transmission-based precautions makes little sense
. @EricMeyerowitz https://twitter.com/AaronRichterman/status/1262531734555500544?s=20 … Today we have important new data from the consistently-impressive Korean CDC that further supports this /1Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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Yes! That we now know. But at the time nobody was sure about when, so it put an extra burden on the nursing homes. Seems like bad policy for the time and even now. Taking back fragile people without being sure of infectiousness to a place full off elderly and susceptible people.
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That’s fair, and it has also contributed to proliferation of burdensome and non-evidence based testing based strategies for ending isolation precautions
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I agree. I’m grateful that South Korea’s CDC does the legwork so we get to have evidence-based guidelines. 
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