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The CDC issued guidance on April 9 allowing certain critical infrastructure workers to keep working after possible exposure if they had no symptoms and took precautions. That may have been a necessary compromise, but it also showed how badly the system was straining. The administration was forcing emergency policy on the fly because it had not built a durable national plan.
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The CDC issued guidance on April 9 allowing certain critical infrastructure workers to keep working after possible exposure if they had no symptoms and took precautions. That may have been a necessary compromise, but it also showed how badly the system was straining. The administration was forcing emergency policy on the fly because it had not built a durable national plan.
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The CDC issued guidance on April 9 allowing certain critical infrastructure workers to keep working after possible exposure if they had no symptoms and took precautions. That may have been a necessary compromise, but it also showed how badly the system was straining. The administration was forcing emergency policy on the fly because it had not built a durable national plan.
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