If you feel like you’re getting whiplash from the ever-changing CDC COVID guidance, you’re not the only one.
Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Rochelle Walensky spoke about the CDC change to the guidance — that they would be halving the isolation guidelines if you got COVID, from ten days to five days if you were asymptomatic. Fauci said that economic factors were the main reason behind the new guidance, and they did not want society to stop because of the increased number of Omicron patients. Dr. Walensky said also that no testing is required in order to terminate isolation. The PCR testing may still be positive up to 12 week after you have been contagious.
People were dissenting, some asking about why they had changed the guideline and others speculating on the test requirement.
Fauci will flip another flop.
Fauci said in interview with ABC on Sunday that the CDC had reexamined what they’d just stated last week.
WATCH: Anthony Fauci says the CDC is reconsidering recent guidance for asymptomatic people because “the CDC is very well aware that there has been some pushback” pic.twitter.com/GJZ8gl5tZ6
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He said: ‘You’re right there has been some concern about why we don’t ask people at that five-day period to get tested. It is currently being looked into.
‘The CDC is very well aware that there has been some pushback about that. It is possible that there could be an alternative, and that testing might be part of it. And I think we’re going to be hearing more about that in the next day or so from the CDC,’ Fauci said.
CNN was told by Fauci that the CDC will likely issue a new recommendation for testing to stop isolation.
Fauci’s flip flop on testing then raised even more questions as to whether this was about politics and pushback, not public health.
“The Biden Admin CDC has done this nearly every step of the way with Covid,” Dr. Nicole Saphier tweeted. “They put forth a recommendation and within a week change it because of external pressure. If they are following the science, this wouldn’t happen. In 2022 we need less politics and more science.” “As a result of external political pressure, the CDC and FDA have become compromised and have very little credibility at this point,” she also tweeted.
“We already knew that Biden’s CDC took its cues from Dem special interest groups, and now Fauci is basically conceding that under Biden, ‘pushback’ from the left on twitter matters more than what the science says. How is this anything other than putting politics over science?” GOP rapid response director Tommy Pigott declared.
Is it still necessary to run the PCR tests that Walensky suggested could detect a positive up to 12 weeks after you have been vaccinated? You would have the same issues, and the question is why this was not mentioned by the CDC until last week.
If the change in guidance were truly about the science, it wouldn’t shift from pushback. It was just a week of trying to defend what they stated last week. Because there was a lot of shouting on the left, this may have changed. Guidance is determined by how loud the left shouts. The problem is that they started trying to shift the narrative to keep the economy going under Joe Biden but at this point, they’ve pitched so much fear porn on the subject to the left that they caused their fear porn adherents to freak out with the shift. Now they’re caught having to deal with that freak out when they try to come back to reality a little bit. They would not have done this if they cared enough about the balance and economic reality. The bottom line is that it’s been politics, right down the line.
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