CDC Moves to Reduce COVID-19 Testing, Trump Officials Deny Responsibility
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=23647"><span class="small">The New York Times</span></a>
Excerpt: "Over the past six months, about 1.5 billion children around the world have been told to stay home from school to help minimize transmission of the coronavirus. More than 30 percent of these students - around 463 million - were unable to gain access to remote learning opportunities when their schools closed, according to a report on Wednesday by Unicef, the United Nations agency for children."
A drive-through testing site at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston last week. (photo: Go Nakamura/Getty)
27 August 20
rump administration officials on Wednesday defended a new recommendation that people without Covid-19 symptoms abstain from testing, even as scientists warned that the policy could hobble an already weak federal response as schools reopen and a potential fall wave looms.
The day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the revised guidance, there were conflicting reports on who was responsible.
Two federal health officials said the shift came as a directive to the C.D.C. from higher-ups at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services.