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A local fitness coalition has called on Trump administration officials to replace new recommendations that other people without Covid-19 symptoms don’t want them tested.
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Two organizations that make up thousands of local public fitness departments in the United States sent a letter Friday to senior Trump management officials asking them to “remove revised guidelines” on coronavirus testing and reinstate recommendations for testing to others who have been exposed to the virus. if they show symptoms.
The letter, addressed to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Admiral Brett P. Giroir, Undersecretary of Health of the Department of Health and Social Services, sent through the leaders of the National Association of County and City Health Officials and Great City Health Coalition. Organization leaders wrote that their members were “extremely concerned” about the changes.
The C.D.C. He quietly replaced his coronavirus test rules this week to exclude others who don’t have Covid-19 symptoms, even if they have recently been exposed to the virus.
Experts questioned the review, emphasizing the importance of identifying infections in the small window before the onset of symptoms, when many other people appear to be the most contagious.
After a typhoon of criticism, Dr. Redfield tried to explain the agency’s advice and stated that “the evidence would possibly be for all close contacts of proven or probable Covid-19 patients.”
The letter sent on Friday read: “As public fitness professionals, we are involved in the lack of evidence cited to indicate this change. CDC’s own knowledge recommends that up to 40% of COVID-19 cases are due to asymptomatic transmission. Verification of change rules to recommend that close contact with showed positive effects without symptoms does not want to be reviewed is inconsistent with science and knowledge ».
While typically local public health officials would inform or at least be given notice of significant changes to testing guidance, this time that did not occur, the letter said.
“We have witnessed the months of reaction to the politicization of public fitness, with local fitness officials and accused of taking mandatory measures to ensure certain public safety, being physically threatened with violence and, in some cases, discarded to improve their status. public fitness. »
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