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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing criticism over the messaging surrounding its updated coronavirus guidelines and statements that appear contradictory as the nation faces a shortage of coronavirus tests.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said this week that her agency did not initially include a testing component in its revised 5-day quarantine guidelines because of testing unreliability while arguing that PCR tests can be positive for up to 12 weeks and rapid tests are not FDA-approved to gauge transmissibility.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky
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However, the CDC recently embraced the “test to stay” plan for schools allowing unvaccinated students exposed to the virus to stay in school if they tested negative twice in the week after exposure.
On Wednesday, Walensky was questioned by a reporter as to why the CDC issued a guideline saying healthcare workers could return to work after seven days with a negative test only to issue another guideline days later, not requiring a negative test after five days to return to work.
The reporter suggested that the change was due to the shortage of tests in the United States, to which Walensky replied, “First of all, this has nothing to do with the shortage of available tests, because you can see in our quarantine guidance that we actually do recommend a test for people to emerge from quarantine.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president
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