The Trump administration reversed recommendations to restrict access to COVID-19 testing Thursday, after the administration’s most sensitive public fitness officer said it was under anesthesia when the adjustments were approved.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Robert Redfield, issued a message to reporters Thursday that “the tests would possibly be considered to be for all close contacts of proven or likely Covid-19 patients.”
This is a revocation of the rules issued Monday through the administration, in which he advised that others who had been in close contact with a positive user to COVID-19 were not tested if they were asymptomatic.
The resulting controversy has noted that many experts and public fitness organizations criticize the replacement and call for its cancellation, drawing attention to the established science that other people seem to be being liable to transmit the virus asymptomatically.
Among them was Dr. Tony Fauci, who said Wednesday that he was under anesthesia when the adjustments were approved and that he feared that this “gives other people the assumption that asymptomatic propagation is not a big concern.” As a fact, it is.
Redfield’s partly reviews the change, but leaves the question whether those who have been exposed to other people who have tested positive for the virus deserve to be tested. The director of the CDC said only that “evidence can be considered.”
“Anyone who needs verification does not necessarily want verification; the key is to involve the public fitness network in the resolution with the right follow-up measures,” Redfield said.
He also said the Trump administration sought more about “assessing others with symptomatic diseases, others exposed to significant exposure” and safe vulnerable populations.
HHS spokesman Michael Caputo would have insisted that it “amplifies politics.” It does not replace the policy. »
Public fitness experts say transparent and direct communication is to solve a pandemic. But this is just the latest example of clumsy confusion around a steering replacement.
HHS Undersecretary of Health Admiral Brett Giroir told reporters Wednesday that “conceptually, we do not believe the number of controls would decrease,” but that the administration sought to control others without symptoms in spaces already facing a serious epidemic.
The call came amid reports that the change in concentrate propelled the CDC from the most sensible to the lowest. Giroir rejected this, saying that Dr. Fauci and others had approved the recommendations.
Fauci was on an operating table, in surgery when the adjustments were approved. He aired on a Wednesday criticizing the change.