“It’s good to see science and evidence taking a front seat for a change,” says Scott Becker, chief executive of the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “It has been a wild few weeks”
Photo: Photonews via Getty Images In August, the CDC modified its COVID-19 testing guidelines to suggest that people who don’t have symptoms don’t need to get tested, even if they’ve been recently exposed, unless they’re vulnerable or have been told to do so by a doctor. The outcry from public-health officials was swift and severe, prompting CDC director Robert R.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had also told the Times that while he’d seen an earlier draft, he had concerns about the published version. Fauci also told CNN that he was “under general anesthesia in the operating room” during the meeting at which the guidelines were finalized, having undergone surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cords.
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