Great article. Your edits make the first paragraph so much better. For fun, here is what my version looks like for the first sentence: After learning more about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, the CDC recommends shortening isolation time for people with COVID-19.
Sorry to take so long to thank you for this! For some reason I missed the comment until another comment was added to this post. I think your edit works well!
Really thank you so much! I have one alternate thought about your editing "and can continue to wear mask for 5 days" - as I read the original, "they may leave isolation if they can wear masks", it seems to me it is not really an option, so my humble suggestion here is: "and need to wear mask for another 5 days". What do you think?
Thanks so much for reading! I think in this case, the advice from CDC was meant to imply that two conditions must be met to leave isolation: 1)that you are asymptomatic; and 2)that you are *able* to continue masking (although their word choice was "if they can continue to mask to minimize the risk to others"). So changing it to "need to wear a mask," while a good edit, would slightly change the meaning of the original sentence, which seemed to emphasize that if you *can* wear a mask you can leave isolation, implying that if for some reason you *can't* wear a mask you cannot leave isolation). So long answer is that if you were writing this, that seems like a fine edit if you're fine making that slight shift in focus. If I were editing for CDC and wanted to preserve that original emphasis on "can" as "are able," I'd probably leave my version.
Great article - made me think whether we needed the ‘given what we know’ phrase since even that was implied. But great share and thank you
Great article. Your edits make the first paragraph so much better. For fun, here is what my version looks like for the first sentence: After learning more about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, the CDC recommends shortening isolation time for people with COVID-19.
Sorry to take so long to thank you for this! For some reason I missed the comment until another comment was added to this post. I think your edit works well!
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Hi Jane,
Really thank you so much! I have one alternate thought about your editing "and can continue to wear mask for 5 days" - as I read the original, "they may leave isolation if they can wear masks", it seems to me it is not really an option, so my humble suggestion here is: "and need to wear mask for another 5 days". What do you think?
Thanks so much for reading! I think in this case, the advice from CDC was meant to imply that two conditions must be met to leave isolation: 1)that you are asymptomatic; and 2)that you are *able* to continue masking (although their word choice was "if they can continue to mask to minimize the risk to others"). So changing it to "need to wear a mask," while a good edit, would slightly change the meaning of the original sentence, which seemed to emphasize that if you *can* wear a mask you can leave isolation, implying that if for some reason you *can't* wear a mask you cannot leave isolation). So long answer is that if you were writing this, that seems like a fine edit if you're fine making that slight shift in focus. If I were editing for CDC and wanted to preserve that original emphasis on "can" as "are able," I'd probably leave my version.