Health officials are shocked by an abrupt turnaround in the CDC’s guidelines for COVID-19 testing. And Disney Chairman Bob Iger is “horrified” by a recent story about the change.
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The United States Centers for Disease Control changed their testing policy to note that asymptomatic people may not need to be tested, even if they’ve come into contact with an infected individual. ABC reports that health experts are surprised by this decision and are pushing back on the CDC’s guidelines, maintaining that asymptomatic young people are a significant vector for passing the virus to others at this time.
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Disney Chairman Bob Iger personally weighed in on twitter last night with his thoughts on the story.
This is more than disappointing. It is horrifying. https://t.co/woLIQBepy7
— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) August 27, 2020
Walt Disney World has maintained strict health and safety protocol during their phased reopening, beginning in May with Disney Springs and select hotels, and continuing in July with all four theme parks. The company has also opened a COVID-19 testing facility on property, and come to an agreement with the Actor’s Equity Association providing testing for actors in exchange for their return to work in Disney World.
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For months they’ve been telling us to “listen to the experts” and now when those experts go with something not fitting the agenda they tell us it’s “disappointing and horrifying.” 🙄
You would think this would be good news. It means the CDC now believes that people who are not sick, not coughing or sneezing, ie asymptomatic people are very rarely spreading the virus further. Which by the way is the World Health Organization’s position.
This is what happens when you no longer make the CDC transparent. You question where these “guidelines” come from.
It would seem to be a good thing to me and a way to go back to a form of normal. Why is it bad?
Every other county got flat line numbers by being aggressive off the bat and then there’s what what you guys have been doing with “the below bare minimum effort” and tell yourselves every day 200,000+ is just a necessary evil. It is what it is.
I’m a COVID-19 contact tracer for my state (Colorado). I spend a *lot* of time on the CDC website and reviewing latest research and information on our state department of public health websites. One thing with the CDC has been, for every recommendation, you can find research basis. Except for this recent change.
I can tell you that the epidemiologists, virologists, and medical professionals for our state have NO idea why and how this change came about and there is absolutely no medical or scientific references the CDC has provided, after many organizations have asked, that support this change in recommendation.
Iger *IS* listening to the experts. Every one I have access to and have read about – literally around the world – can’t even begin to explain this change.
At least, not from a scientific or medical perspective.
I wear my mask , social distance . wash my hands as often as possible and use my sanitizer. I will continue to do this until a safe vaccine is issued and I am able to get it I was at Disney two weeks ago and was very impressed with the safety protocol that they have. I felt very safe. U just don’t know who to believe so use good common sense .
Too many things get sent back to governmental departments to be rewritten because “they don’t sound good.” The CDC may have made those statements, but no one of note is backing them up except some in the White House. Not even the team running lead on the pandemic research. NHIS, WHO, AMA, no one backs that statement.
I just finished reading an article an article from Geneva which states, “The World Health Organization said Thursday that countries should test people to find coronavirus cases even if they don’t show symptoms.”(Associated Press) When questioned the CD referred questions to the office of Health and Human Services according to an AP article. The HHs office said the decision came out of a White house Coronaviruys Task Force meeting and referred questions back to the CDC. Many health officials all over the US are in an uproar. Personally, with the Office of Health and Human Services coming into this and the fact that Dr. Fauci and others who are pros at this kind of virus were not included (Fauci was having surgery, how convenient) I will now not even be able to rely on the CDC. The Office of HHS has too many political hands in it for comfort. I’m with Mr. Iger.
Bob Iger is right. The CDC has given no peer reviewed data to support their pull-back. They clearly bowed to White House pressure to reduce testing because that reduces the number of cases reported. Of course the death toll can’t be easily fudged, though the latest crazy idea is to count only healthy people who die from COVID-19, not those who had underlying conditions! We must always follow the best science. It will inevitability evolve (change) as scientific advances are made but personal agendas and politics have no place in that process.
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