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Political Influence in CDC Virus Testing Guidelines

In August, the CDC officially recommended that those without COVID-19 symptoms didn't need to be tested- even if they knew they'd been exposed. This decision received a lot of backlash from public health officials pushing for more testing. It was later revealed that that the original guidelines had been re-written by those involved with the Department of Health and Human Services and the US COVID task force.

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Updated 2020-09-23

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences