Guidance about novel coronavirus testing posted last month on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was not written by the agency's scientists and was posted over their objections, the New York Times reported citing people familiar with...
- Guidance about novel coronavirus testing posted last month on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was not written by the agency’s scientists and was posted over their objections, the New York Times reported citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents.
Under the guidance, it was not necessary to test people with no symptoms of COVID-19 - the potentially fatal disease caused by the virus - even if they had been exposed to the virus. Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services - the CDC’s parent - at the time said the goal was “appropriate testing”, not more testing for its own sake, and that there had been no political pressure.
However, the NYT also reported the HHS rewrote and then “dropped” the guidance into the CDC’s website, flouting the agency’s review process.
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