CDC drops controversial testing recommendation that brought on backlash

U.S. well being officers are dropping a controversial piece of coronavirus steerage and telling all those that have been in shut contact with contaminated folks to get examined

NEW YORK — U.S. well being officers on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus steerage and stated anybody who has been in shut contact with an contaminated individual ought to get examined.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention primarily returned to its earlier testing steerage, eliminating language posted final month that stated individuals who did not really feel sick did not have to get examined. That change had set off a rash of criticism from well being consultants who could not fathom why the nation’s prime public well being company would say such a factor amid a pandemic that has been troublesome to manage.

Well being officers had been evasive about why they’d made the change in August, and a few speculated it was compelled on the CDC by political appointees inside the Trump administration.

The CDC now says anybody who has been inside 6 ft of an individual with documented an infection for at the very least 15 minutes ought to get a take a look at. The company known as the modifications a “clarification” that was wanted “as a result of significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission.”

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