Andrew Harnik/Pool/Getty Images Director Dr. Robert Redfield holds up a CDC document while he speaks at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee reviewing coronavirus response efforts on Wednesday in Washington. “We are working on a clarification document related to the diagnostic and public health use of testing,” Redfield told a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Here’s what the CDC website said previously: “Testing is recommended for all close contacts of persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection. “We are going to come out with that hopefully, I hope before the end of the week,” Redfield told the hearing. We are hopeful that our new daily testing capability can help satisfy public health official approvals in California and Oregon to begin contact practice and competition.

Source: The Nation September 16, 2020 17:26 UTC