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President Trump has stated that a legal vaccine for “all Americans” may not be distributed until next year. An Iranian official says the country has a “red zone” as cases and deaths increase.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overturned advice that others who have been in close contact with a user inflamed by the coronavirus do not want to be tested unless they have symptoms.
The replacement came after a widespread complaint from the previous board, as well as reports in the New York Times that the council came from Trump-appointed individuals and ignored the agency’s same rigorous clinical scrutiny.
The Times reported Thursday that the directive published on the C. D. C. despite strong objections from the agency’s scientists.
The above wording, which said that other asymptomatic people who have had close contact with an inflamed user “don’t necessarily want proof,” now obviously tells them, “You want a test. “
Public fitness experts have hailed the substitution as consistent with studies that seem to indicate that other people without symptoms can spread the virus. Some studies have indicated that they are the maximum that is likely to be transmitted to other people from about a day before the onset of symptoms, when the viral load is possibly the highest.
“It’s seeing science and evidence take the top position for change,” said Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
The original guidelines, published on August 24, were the subject of fierce criticism, including from C. D. C. partners, adding the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which suggested its members continue to evaluate others without symptoms.
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