CDC Reverses Controversial Guidance On Asymptomatic Testing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday (Sept. 18) reversed its controversial guidance discouraging asymptomatic people with known COVID-19 exposure from getting tested, now outlining on its website that people in close contact with others who are positive should get tested. The change comes following outcry in August after the guidance was quietly changed on CDC’s website to discourage asymptomatic people from being tested. HHS Assistant Secretary Brett Giroir defended the move at the time but the nation’s...