On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly replaced its COVID-19 screening rules, making a replacement that can lead to fewer testing of others and hinder contact search efforts. The rules now mean that other healthy people who have been exposed to COVID-19 “don’t necessarily want a test” as long as they don’t show symptoms. This is an inversion of the above tips that obviously test all close contacts of inflamed people, whether or not they have symptoms.
It is worth noting in context that the resolution to replace the rules made a week ago today, which is the day that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, underwent surgery to remove a noncancerous polyp from his voice. Cords.
With this in mind, Fauci’s spokesman yesterday issued a warning that the immunologist “fears that the revised rules may be interpreted as diminishing the importance of the asymptomatic spread of the virus in the community.” He added that “if other people who have close and prolonged contact with a documented case of COVID-19 become inflamed and asymptomatic and do not undergo testing and give results at the right time, then asymptomatic propagation to others can also occur.”
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Given these concerns, there are some apparent questions that rise above their heads: who replaced the CDC rules and why? With more than a thousand Americans dying every day from COVID-19, what led the CDC to make an official in favor of a test relief for those who might want it?
Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told the New York Times that the CDC update is contradictory and “very strange.” Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, a medical specialist in infectious diseases at Palo Alto, said the substitution is “potentially dangerous,” adding, “I feel it will make things worse.”
Another Article of the Times continued to report, “Two federal fitness officials stated that they would replace a C.D.C. directive through senior White House officials and the Department of Health and Human Services.” Similarly, the Washington Post reported that the replacement “was carried out through the White House Coronavirus Working Group.” CNN added that the replacement “arrived this week due to the tension of the Trump administration’s upper eche reaches.”
If this is true, it suggests that a persistent challenge is getting worse: key public aptitude decisions are through the Trump team, not through CDC clinical experts.
It’s also part of a context in which Donald Trump bragged to a support organization in June: “When you test to this extent, you’ll locate more people, place more cases, so I told my people.” Slow down testing, please.” He added at the time that the United States had done “too smart a job” in detecting COVID-19 cases.
White House officials temporarily insisted that the president joked (the comments were “joked,” McEnany insisted, which the president temporarily rejected.
“I’m joking,” he told reporters when asked about his line about slowing the evidence. “Let me tell you. Let me get this straight.”
In other words, Trump has asked for fewer coronavirus tests, and now the CDC, according to some, at the request of the White House, has issued rules that would discourage even Americans who have been in close contact with inflamed people.
The public should be able to count on the CDC, especially a pandemic. These new advances are not only scientifically dubious, but can also undermine public confidence at a critical time.
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