Florida allowed up to a million COVID-19 rapid test kits to expire last month; official says the stockpile sat idle in a Florida warehouse amid a lack of demand.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is standing by her agency's new quarantine and isolation guidance for COVID-19, which the nation’s largest association of physicians has criticized as"confusing."
But Walensky defended the new guidance, telling ABC News' Cecelia Vega in an interview Friday on"Good Morning America" that the CDC"make[s] these recommendations in the context of science, in the context of ongoing epidemiology and in the context of what is feasible in collaboration with our public health and local and state public health partners."
"So by five days after your symptoms, the vast majority of your contagiousness is really behind you," she said."And what we say at day five then is, are your symptoms gone? Are you feeling better? Is your cough gone, sore throat gone? And if so, then it is safe to go out if you are wearing a mask all the time.
Florida allowed up to a million COVID-19 rapid test kits to expire last month, according to Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie.
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