New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control recommends against universities testing students, faculty and staff who are not displaying symptoms of COVID-19 and who have not knowingly interacted with an infected person upon their return to school.
Because at this rate they’re all going to have it anyway.
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control recommends against universities testing students, faculty and staff who are not displaying symptoms of COVID-19 and who have not knowingly interacted with an infected person upon their return to school.
This seems to be an IRRESPONSIBLE recommendation from CDC when already 40 CA principals had to quarantine AND RED state students are having Covid Party and betting on getting sick first!
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Sure. Just roll the dice. Like the Swedish model. That worked great.
Hold it right there. There is in development the very logical approach of pooled testing. Basically, swabs from 10 or more people can be combined into a single sample that is then tested. If there’s no virus present, then fine. If it is detected, then zero in. Why doesn’t the CDC include this approach, and where are the states and universities on this?
Students returning to campuses from all over the country are going to present a tremendous risk of further spreading the virus. Can states like New York, which have made tremendous efforts and sacrifices, risk it without a full-on testing program? Without it, they are rolling the dice, no matter how well they plan social distancing, small classes, and the like.
It would be instructive to hear from former CDC heads on this. In addition, Fauci really should be more forthright, matter of fact, and demanding.
Besides pool testing you can do random testing to get a good snapshot.
The dumber they come, the harder we fall.
It’s going to be fine. I mean, is there any evidence students at US universities are spreading the viru— oh.
This is what you get with a Bargain Basement CDC. It’s emblematic of what happens when Republicans get put in charge of government these days.
I’m all for a multi-party system, but I can’t for the life of me come up with a good reason why the Republican Party should be one of those parties.
THIS!!!
what a Sh$tshow - and the ability to scientifically approach this has been totally decimated by Trump’s asshole anti-science antics - - he has polluted the public arena with fetid stinking baseless crap and now the oppositional bastards just make stuff up.
WHA… WHAT MORONS blame “scientists and medical researchers??”
And just keep in mind, while the death rate is falling as more younger people are getting sick, this administration is currently suing to do away with insurance companies having to provide insurance for pre-existing conditions.
This IS going to end up with being infected by COVID-19 being declared a pre-existing condition.
It’s clear that this administration’s course for the country is to subject the population to repeated waves of infection in perpetuity, to fuel the economy with our lives.
I can’t wait for a new administration that demands that the CDC act based on science rather than on magical thinking. Students (and most citizens) will assume that permission to be back at all is a signal that it is safe to resume normal activities. Combine that with the adolescent personal myth and we have a recipe for disaster. I’m guessing that universities will, on some level, be relieved by this recommendation because otherwise they would have to shut down again by September 1st. (Most in my area are returning early so that they can begin the winter break at Thanksgiving. I don’t know about the more traditional “begin after Labor Day” states)
So, if you live in a college town ,as I do you are
screwed
“Testing of all students, faculty and staff for COVID-19 before allowing campus entry (entry testing) has not been systematically studied,” the guidance said.
the best … the most amazing … people say they have never seen any like them before …
“This recommendation from the CDC, coupled with the rationale given, beggars belief,” added Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, on Twitter.
And with that, we finally reach the endgame in this madness: We can’t trust our own CDC any more.
Can we believe anything the federal government under Trump tells us at this point?
Who knows?!
It’s been so politicized with bootlicking, political-appointee toadies that doubt is now endemic.
In the midst of a catastrophic public-health emergency, this is the most dangerous of all outcomes.
Rest assured that Betsy DeVious had a hand in this.
November cannot come soon enough for those of us who survive…
Sounds like some policy makers are less terrified of people dying by the hundreds of thousands from the virus than the prospect of millions of young people without college to keep them otherwise occupied.
