Fauci 'has some concern' about change to COVID-19 testing guidelines
The nation's leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, expressed concern about changes to COVID-19 testing guidances, which were finalized by the White House Coronavirus Task Force when he was undergoing surgery.
Dr. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health at the Department for Health and Human Services, told reporters Wednesday that the decision to change the testing guidance came Thursday, August 20, the day Fauci had surgery to remove a noncancerous polyp on his vocal cords.
Fauci recalls "quickly reviewing a version of the guidelines" that had circulated previously, according to a spokesperson from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, which Fauci leads. "At the time he was not struck by the potential implications of this particular change in the version he reviewed."
"Now reading them carefully, he has some concern that the revised guidelines could be interpreted as lessening the importance of asymptomatic spread of virus in the community," the spokesperson said, adding that "if people who come into close and prolonged contact with a documented case of COVID-19 become infected and are asymptomatic and are not tested and given results in a timely fashion, then asymptomatic spread to others could occur."
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