💬 Quoted… “Its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other [respiratory viral] illnesses, including influenza and RSV.”

• The era of social distancing after coming down with Covid is officially over, according to the CDC. On Friday, the agency updated its Covid guidance and removed a previous recommendation for Americans to self-isolate and stay home from work/school for five days after testing positive. The CDC’s new, simplified guidance calls for Americans to stay home when they are sick and symptomatic – regardless of which virus is at fault – and to resume normal activities if symptoms have improved and they’re fever-free for 24 hours.

🏀 Stat of the Day: What does a faulty turntable have in common with basketball superstars LeBron James and Caitlin Clark? They’re all breaking records. On Saturday night, LeBron became the first NBA player in history to score at least 40,000 points in their career. Then, one day later, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark scored her 3,668th career point to break the all-time NCAA record across men’s and women’s basketball, which previously stood for 50+ years.

🤔 Did You Know?... The game “Rock, Paper, Scissors” (or “Rochambeau”) can be traced back to China’s Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BCE to 220 CE.

📰 Worth a Read: How Vice News, once valued at $5.7B, collapsed and went bankrupt → (The Hollywood Reporter)