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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCDC Coronavirus Testing Guidance Was Posted Against Scientists' Objections
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A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agencys website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as internal documents obtained by The New York Times.
The guidance said it was not necessary to test people without symptoms of Covid-19 even if they had been exposed to the virus. It came at a time when public health experts were pushing for more testing rather than less, and administration officials told The Times that the document was a C.D.C. product and had been revised with input from the agencys director, Dr. Robert Redfield.
But officials told The Times this week that the health department did the rewriting itself and then dropped it into the C.D.C.s public website, flouting the agencys strict scientific review process.
That was a doc that came from the top down, from the H.H.S. and the task force, said a federal official with knowledge of the matter, referring to the White House task force on the coronavirus. That policy does not reflect what many people at the C.D.C. feel should be the policy.
The document contains elementary errors such as referring to testing for Covid-19, as opposed to testing for the virus that causes it and recommendations inconsistent with the C.D.C.s stance that mark it to anyone in the know as not having been written by agency scientists, according to a senior C.D.C. scientist who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a fear of repercussions.
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CDC Coronavirus Testing Guidance Was Posted Against Scientists' Objections (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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I've twitched my nose and clicked the heels of my ruby red slippers.....no success.
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
#2
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. Please make them all go away
Nevilledog
(51,120 posts)2. I've twitched my nose and clicked the heels of my ruby red slippers.....no success.
Might have to move to voodoo dolls.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)3. Excellent plan!
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)4. K&R