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The University of Southern California reports “an alarming increase” in the first week of the fall semester, even though the categories are almost entirely online.
Trump management officials on Wednesday defended a new piece of advice that other people without symptoms of the Covid-19 choir should prove, even as scientists warned that the policy could hinder an already weak federal reaction as schools reopen and a possible drop looms.
The day after the reviews were published through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were conflicting reports on responsibility.
Two federal fitness officers said they replaced a C.D.C. directive. Senior officials from the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Admiral Brett P. Giroir, the administration’s tsar of coronavirus, called it “CDC Action,” but claimed that the review came after a heated debate among members of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, adding its new member, Dr. Scott W. Atlas, a regular guest of Fox News and a special adviser to President Trump.
“We all approve, the documents, before they were delivered to a position where political leaders, you know, would have even noticed it, and this document was approved through the executing organization by consensus,” Dr. Giroir said. He said there’s “no weight on the president’s balance.”
Whoever is responsible, the replacement is very and goes against the clinical evidence that other people without symptoms may be the most prolific spreaders of the virus.
And that comes at a very precarious time.
Hundreds of thousands of K-12 students are returning to campus, and extensive check schedules are at the heart of many of their school plans. Companies are reopening and internal and external management scientists are involved in political interference in clinical decisions.
“The only credible reason,” said Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, “is that they need fewer people to undergo the tests, because as the president said, if we didn’t do the tests, we probably wouldn’t. to know the number of people living with HIV in Covid. »
In an interview, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, said he had noticed an early edition of the new rules and opposed them.
But the final debate on the revisions took place in an assembly that Dr. Fauci was unable to attend. In retrospect, he said, he has “some concerns” about not recommending that other people get tested.
“I’m afraid it’s misunderstanding, ” he said.
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