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September 18, 2020The Trump administration has released soft guidelines on coronavirus testing "despite strong objections" from medical experts.
The New York Times writes it.
On the CDC's website, the federal health protection agency, a controversial recommendation appeared that tests were not necessary for people exposed to Covid-19 but who did not show symptoms.
According to documents and internal sources, however, this recommendation was not made by the CDC scientists, who on the contrary were pushing for more tests on the population, in a country plagued by the pandemic.
US officials told NYT that the guidelines document, published last month on the CDC's website, was "rewritten by the Department of Health and Human Services" in breach of the agency's "rigorous scientific review process."
A "top-down" document, a source said, referring to the White House taskforce and the Department of Health, HHS.
The draft guidelines document had about 20 revisions, but the scientists' objections to the published document went unheard.
A senior CDC official explained: "We did not have the ability to make substantial changes" to a document that contained recommendations "inconsistent" with expert suggestions.
Sources in the administration told the NYT that the published document was nevertheless revised with the contribution of the director of the CDC, Robert R. Redfield.
Also today in a town hall on CNN Biden he said: "I don't trust the president on vaccines but Fauci".