The Hacking of the CDC
There needs to be more security over who can publish on the CDC’s website
When I first read the revised testing guidelines on the CDC’s website, only one word came to my mind:
HUH?
The famed CDC, the world’s premier public health agency — for which I had the greatest respect in the past — is now recommending that those who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 but are asymptomatic not get tested? I could not believe my eyes.
Well, it turns out, that the CDC’s scientists may not have been the authors of those new recommendations, according to the NY Times:
A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as internal documents obtained by The New York Times.
The article continued:
“That was a doc that came from the top down, from the H.H.S. and the task force,” said a federal official with knowledge of the matter, referring to the White House task force on the coronavirus. “That policy does not reflect what many people at the C.D.C. feel should be…
