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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 07:39 PM Sep 2020

CDC Coronavirus Testing Guidance Was Posted Against Scientists' Objections




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 agency’s 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 agency’s 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 agency’s 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 OP
Please make them all go away soothsayer Sep 2020 #1
I've twitched my nose and clicked the heels of my ruby red slippers.....no success. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #2
Excellent plan! soothsayer Sep 2020 #3
K&R Blue Owl Sep 2020 #4

Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
2. I've twitched my nose and clicked the heels of my ruby red slippers.....no success.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 07:46 PM
Sep 2020

Might have to move to voodoo dolls.

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