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The Most Important Coronavirus News This Week
There’s really never a dull moment in a pandemic and this week was filled with Covid-19 news — both good and bad. Here are three stories from Medium’s Coronavirus Blog to get you caught up as you head into the weekend.
WTF happened at the CDC and FDA? “It’s hard to know when my faith in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) died,” writes Dana Smith on the blog. Smith shares her anger over the seeming capitulation of the two storied health organizations to the whims of political leaders. First, the FDA gave the green light to plasma therapy before it was proven effective for Covid-19. Then, the CDC changed its recommendations and said people who come into contact with an infected person do not need to get tested for the virus if they don’t have symptoms. The advice goes against what science says about Covid-19 spread. As Dana writes, “This is no longer negligence. This is not incompetence. This is sabotage.”
Rapid-response testing moves forward. Our team has written a lot about the appeal and promise of rapid-response…
