The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement on Thursday expanding on its updated COVID-19 guidance on who should be tested — a day after top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci indicated he did not weigh in on the new guidance.
The CDC reviewed its recommendations before this week to imply that many other people who have been exposed to coronavirus but who have no symptoms may not want to get tested. This has caused fear among many medical experts, as other asymptomatic people can still transmit the virus to others.
On Thursday, the CDC said its goal was to emphasize that other people with symptoms, those with “significant exposure” and those found in retirement homes or long-term care services, as well as “critical infrastructure staff, physical care staff, and other individuals who would possibly be asymptomatic when prioritized through medical and public fitness authorities.”
He said “everyone who needs a check doesn’t necessarily want a check,” however, added that the check “can be considered as for all close contacts of COVID-19 patients shown or likely.” And the firm pleaded with others without symptoms that came out negative or didn’t accept a check to adhere to CDC mitigation protocols.
They described these mitigation measures, adding follow-up to their symptoms, taking precautions to protect vulnerable people, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, washing their hands, and contacting physical care providers to make a decision about whether testing is needed.
Previously, the CDC advised that “all close contacts of others with SARS-CoV-2 infection” be tested, due to the “potential for asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission”. However, August 24 reviews recommend that only certain computers be tested after exposure. He stated that other people who have been within two metres of a user with COVID-19 for at least 15 minutes and who do not present symptoms “don’t necessarily want a test”.
The firm warns you that if you are “a user or your fitness service provider or local or state public fitness officials propose that you take one.”
“Other vulnerable people” are explained as elderly people, as well as others with underlying fitness problems, according to the agency. The CDC lists 8 situations that inform a user of a greater threat of serious illness due to COVID-19 and many other situations that “could” involve a threat.
Updated rules also warn that the fact that an exposed user is negative does not mean that an infection will not expand “later”.
And the CDC warns that swollen asymptomatic Americans can spread the virus, they may “feel smart and show no symptoms.”
Admiral Brett P. Giroir of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He said Wednesday that the replacement had been made to give more strength and local fitness officials.
HHS told CBS News that the rules had been updated “to focus on evaluating Americans for clinical and/or public fitness reasons, adding tests from other asymptomatic people when performed through public fitness leaders or physical care providers.” He added that “the updated rules are intended to ensure that the evidence is used appropriately and that Americans protect themselves and others.”
Giroir, who leads HHS’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing efforts, said the resolution was approved by firm executives, and added Dr. Anthony Fauci, before being introduced to the White House Coronavirus Task Force led by Vice President Pence. When asked in particular about Fauci’s approval on a conference call, Giroir told reporters that “all doctors approved this” and that the document “was approved through the executing organization by consensus.”
But at CBS News, Fauci said he was under anesthesia for his vocal cord surgery when the task group met to discuss adjustments in check orientation. He said he temporarily reviewed an edition later, but that he “was unaware of the possible implications of this specific change.”
“I’m involved in interpreting those recommendations and I’m involved in this giving other people the assumption that asymptomatic spread is not a big concern,” he said in an interview with CNN Wednesday. “Actually, it is.”
In its statement Thursday, the CDC said, “Updated guidelines, coordinated in conjunction with the White House Coronavirus Task Force, received appropriate attention, consultation and input from task force experts.” It did not repeat Giroir’s earlier assertion that “all doctors had signed off” or that the guidance had been approved “by the task force by consensus.”
In response to the substitution complaint through public fitness experts, Giroir said Wednesday that the government’s purpose was to verify prospectively, keeping knowledge and strategy in the brain. “Unless they each and every one, each and every day deserves to be reviewed as they please, they can’t really argue with that,” he said.
He under pressure for testing to be conducted based on individual instances and community outreach, and explained that as instances fall into a community, so will his need for testing.
“The resolution to be tested will have to be made in collaboration with public fitness officials or your fitness service provider based on individual cases and network status,” hhS says.
The United States has more than 5.8 million cases of coronavirus, the highest of all countries, according to knowledge collected through Johns Hopkins University, and so far more than 180,000 Americans have died in the pandemic.
Giroir said the firm does not expect the new CDC rules to increase the volume of testing in the United States. Tested.
“We’re looking for tests, not less testing,” he said.
Sara Cook contributed to this report.