A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN.
You have your answer
CDC has a pretty broad mandate to study public health, they used to study gun control before Republicans stopped them. Whether something this obvious is worth announcing is another matter.
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Time to break out a classic:
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It was always going to be every man for themselves. There was no “end” to this pandemic that wasn’t people, on their own, making their own personal healthcare decisions. The smart people, and the dumb people. To think that the government was going to save us was always wishful thinking.
meh worker safety in the times of covid due to a covid issue seems reasonable for them to comment on. I don’t even think this part is unreasonable. The rest… nah.
Again, I don’t agree here. I always thought this would be ‘solved’ by crowd sourcing or whatever the proper term is due to the complete incompetence of this administration leading people astray from what they should be doing (in the beginning more confusion than malice).
I don’t think anyone thought he would be criminally and recklessly indifferent to the loss of human life in an election year due to what that kind of overt action does to people’s electoral prospects. Little did we realize he would use that indifference as a hold my beer moment to doing some of the most infuriating and life losing actions during the pandemic so far. And he’s tried to spin it into he’s doing a good job.
It’s amazing that some decent amount of people believe him at all. Reality is going to do a hard slap in the face in the not too distant future (probably within 6 weeks) and then watch out for the ramifications of that. I’m old enough to remember when this a-hole was saying that the pandemic would be over by Easter. Some people believed him then, but I don’t think anyone believes him now about any kind of ending. For the people who are still on board, it’s not about it ending, it’s that it never began in the first place. The numbers are still so ‘small’ that people can still try to explain it away…
Does this mean that he has the influence to block stuff like this when not under anesthesia, so they had to wait until he had surgery to sneak it through, and that this sort of politically motivated action would be routine if he resigned in protest?
The government wasn’t going to save us, but it’s not unreasonable to expect it wouldn’t be going out of its way to actively harm us.
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Well he might as well resign now. He needs to be on every effin show spilling every damn thing he has heard.
I don’t consider myself a violent person but boy the storylines I think about some of these fools is dark.
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Maybe he’s thinking that he saved lives by not resigning in May. Do more people die if the CDC does this three months ago? If he’s going to resign and go on a news show spree, it might make more sense for him to wait until late October and block what he can. Of course, he may just be another Susan Collins, only capable of escalating degrees of concern.
OMG. Soap opera level shit from the writers.
Agreed. Just shoot them in self defense from 20 feet away.
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“I was under general anesthesia in the operating room and was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding the new testing recommendations,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
“I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is,” he added.
Cartoon villains
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Take note of how the flu vaccine is rolling out on your area. We’re setting up drive thru flu shots, flu shots in pharmacies, flu shots in PCP officies, flu shots in ERs, and generally massively increasing our distribution capabilities. It’s also a vaccine against four types of flu this year, which is apparently more than normal.
While this has obvious immediate benefits for lessening the impact of flu, I got to imagine this is also part of the plan for distributing covid vaccines.
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When I plugged in the testing numbers I was shocked to see 1,033,374 as the number. Was this pool testing? Did someone report way more numbers than normal? As I went down the line, I didn’t see anything suggesting pool testing. I got down to my last big state (TX) and it was lower than yesterday. Then it hit me…Washington. They dropped their first set of negative test results since August 3. The number was 358,826. Testing is still very low when taking out Washington, 674,748. It would probably be about 689,000 with Washington’s average results since 8/3.
Cases look to be moving up while testing remains significantly down in the 4 day periods I measured.
This week:
Wed: 43,272
Tue: 36,588
Mon: 35,166
Sun: 38,181
Previous Week:
Wed: 45,049
Tue: 40,403
Mon: 37,932
Sun: 42,987
What I haven’t heard talked about much is India. They have to be getting absolutely crushed right? Their real deaths have to be absolutely insane. I’m mostly ignorant but from what I’ve seen their cities are insanely dense about like 90% of their population can’t really isolate long and survive.
Another side effect of this horrific leadership. We should have our shit together enough that we should be able to be helping countries like India. Fucking disgrace.
The three worst death countries in the world have authoritarian leaders who can only cover it up to a certain extent. I haven’t looked at world numbers for about a month. Looks like it’s time to do it again tomorrow.