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White House chief of staff Nancy Pelosi and Mark Meadows spoke for the first time since talks about the economic recovery plan collapsed this month, posing the option to restart negotiations.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sought to explain the agency’s advice to advise others not to take the test after exposure to coronavirus, saying that “tests may be for all close contacts of proven or likely Covid-19 patients.”
Dr. Robert R. Redfield was delivered to some news organizations Wednesday night, and more broadly on Thursday morning, after a typhoon of complaints about the new C.D.C. rules, involving potentially asymptomatic Americans, who were the product of the White House Coronavirus Working Group and not the C.D.C. scientists themselves.
Dr. Redfield made the effort to explain the new policy, one official said. However, the rules previously published this week remained in the C.D.C. online from Thursday morning, and it is unlikely that the company will replace them.
“The controls aim to take action and achieve express physical fitness goals,” Dr. Redfield wrote. “Anyone who wants a Covid-19 check can perform a check. Anyone who wants a verification does not necessarily want a verification; the key is to involve the public fitness network in the resolution with the appropriate follow-up measures.
The explanation is unusual. Public fitness experts say transparent and consistent communication is to combat an infectious disease epidemic, and Dr. Redfield’s comments can still be confusing.
In the rules published Monday, the firm said that close contacts of Covid-19 patients “don’t necessarily want a test” unless they are vulnerable or recommended by their doctor or a state or local public or physical fitness official. In a call to the convention with reporters on Wednesday, Admiral Brett M. Giroir, the administration’s coronavirus test czar, said the new policy reflected existing advice for physical care and other frontline workers, and that the working group only had to make it larger for the general population.
But the recommendation was met by protests from public fitness experts, who said the country needed more evidence, no less, and that it made no sense to advise anyone exposed not to get tested, especially because the virus is transmitted through asymptomatic people.
The clinician’s clinical director of the Association of American Medical College, Dr. Ross McKinney Jr., called it “irresponsible” and said the rules published Monday “disagree with the interests of other Americans and are a step backwards in the opposite fight. pandemic. Array »
President Trump has advised the country to do less testing, arguing that managing more evidence increases the number of instances and misrepresents the United States. But experts say the genuine measure of the pandemic is the number of cases, but the positivity rates of the tests, the percentage of tests that test positive.
In an interview Wednesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a working group member and major government infectious disease specialist, said he was involved in this being misunderstood. Dr. Fauci had signed an initial edition of the rule, but underwent surgery to remove a polyp from his vocal cord when it ended last Thursday.
In the statement, Dr. Redfield said the firm “focuses on evaluating others with symptomatic diseases, others exposed to significant exposure, vulnerable populations, adding retirement homes or long-term care centers, critical infrastructure staff, fitness staff, and lifeguards. Array or other people who would possibly be asymptomatic if given priority through medical and public aptitude officials”.
Dr. Redfield also stated that anyone, even others with a negative check, exposed to an inflamed or most likely inflamed user, deserves to “strictly comply” with public fitness guidelines, such as social distance, dressing in a mask, avoiding congested interior spaces, and handwashing.
California President Nancy Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows spoke Thursday afternoon for the first time since talks about an economic recovery plan collapsed earlier this month, posing the option to revive negotiations on the pandemic stimulus round.
Since the talks failed weeks ago, key Democrats and senior management officials have stayed a little in touch, even as the number of victims of the virus continues to rise in families, small businesses and schools.
House Democrats approved a $3.4 trillion aid package in May and then narrowed his call for this month, asking Trump’s team to expand their opening bid to a $2 trillion plan, a perception they also rejected.
In Thursday’s 25-minute call, Pelosi said, told Meadows that Democrats would cut their initial bid from $3.4 trillion to $2.2 trillion.
“This verbal exchange evidently showed that the White House continues to forget the wishes of other Americans as the coronavirus crisis devastates lives and livelihoods,” Pelosi said after the call. “The administration’s continued failure to recognize the degrees of investment that experts, scientists, and other Americans know are mandatory leaves our country in a tragic stalemate.”
Pelosi later said he would agree to respond once the White House agreed to a $2.2 trillion stimulus threshold.
After negotiations stalled, Trump took a series of executive moves this month that he said would bring relief across the country, though officials declared the measures would be small-reaching and would have an effect without the new budget allocated through lawmakers. His plan to use a FEMA crisis fund to pay for aid to laid-off personnel is also under scrutiny when Hurricane Laura hits the Gulf Coast with some other typhoon in tow, raising the option that cash is needed for a primary recovery. Effort.
As the procedure stalled on the annual recess in August, many legislators and assistants concluded that any additional relief in the event of a pandemic deserves to be tied to a provisional final bill to fund the entire federal government. This measure should be followed until the end of September to avoid closure.
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