CDC Issues Yet Another Round of Guidance on COVID-19 Testing

And Another One

The beleaguered agency has formally walked back its claim that asymptomatic people don’t necessarily need testing, in a new indication it’s breaking from Trump.

National Security Reporter

Published Sep. 18 2020 2:06PM EDT

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday updated its coronavirus testing guidelines to say that individuals who do not present with symptoms should still be tested for COVID-19 “due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission.”

The revised guidelines represent a capstone of sorts to a tumultuous few...