Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came under attack again for its new guidelines suggesting that brief exposure to a person with COVID-19 didn't automatically mean that an asymptomatic person needed to be tested.
But Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director, explained to me in an interview on SiriusXM's "Doctor Radio" that he was all for testing asymptomatic contacts provided that "testing should be actionable from a public health point of view." In other words, the medical personnel necessary to perform the contact tracing are essential to the process.
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