'Political propaganda': Cuomo tells private companies not to follow new CDC guidance on testing

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo advised private companies trying to bring employees back to work to disregard updated testing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which now say that not everyone needs to be tested. “I consider [CDC guidance] political propaganda,” Cuomo said Wednesday. “I would caution private companies against following the CDC guidance.” Cuomo has urged New Yorkers to follow CDC guidance regarding workplace testing in the past. However, the CDC changed its testing guidelines Monday to say that asymptomatic people “do not necessarily need a test” if they were exposed. Previously, the agency had recommended that asymptomatic people should be tested so as to limit transmission to vulnerable populations. “It is inherently self-contradictory. It is the exact opposite of what the CDC has been saying,” Cuomo said. “So either the CDC is … admitting error in their first position or this is just political dictation.”

Cuomo said that private companies reopening in New York should continue testing procedures to ensure that workspaces are safe. Economists have said that frequent and accessible testing is the best way to return to pre-pandemic normal and get the economy back on track, but the Trump administration’s testing czar, Adm. Brett Giroir, said recently that widespread testing is not the answer. The CDC has been criticized for its initial assertion that asymptomatic people cannot transfer the virus to another, as well as for its delay in delivering an accurate coronavirus test after the initial test kits introduced to the public were found to be severely flawed and to produce inaccurate results. Testing people, whether they show symptoms of infection or not, is a crucial aspect of contact tracing, a system in which new coronavirus cases are closely monitored so that health officials can let people who were exposed to the infected patient know that they should get tested and quarantine. Public health experts have warned that the United States still does not have a sufficiently robust contact tracing system in place, which would require about 100,000 volunteers or paid employees to carry out widespread case tracking.

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Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Revisions made on August 24, 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html

Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Revisions made on July 17, 2020

https://web.archive.org/web/20200822095711/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html

Trump administration rejects idea of testing the country back to pre-pandemic normal

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'We should have gotten on this earlier': Public health experts warn US lag in contact tracing could delay comeback

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-should-have-gotten-on-this-earlier-public-health-experts-warn-us-lag-in-contact-tracing-could-delay-comeback

Pope Francis: Pandemic reveals unjust wealth inequality that 'cries out to heaven'

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic reveals that the world's wealth is controlled by "a few rich people," which is "an injustice that cries out to heaven." "We must say it simply: the economy is sick," Francis wrote in a letter. "It has become ill. It is sick. It is the fruit of unequal economic growth — this is the illness: the fruit of unequal economic growth — that disregards fundamental human values." Francis emphasized the "injustice" that a small group of people "possess more than all the rest of humanity" and said that economic inequality is inextricably tied to the "damage inflicted on our common home," the Earth. "We are close to exceeding many limits of our wonderful planet, with serious and irreversible consequences: from the loss of biodiversity and climate change to rising sea levels and the destruction of the tropical forests," Francis said. "Social inequality and environmental degradation go together and have the same root: the sin of wanting to possess and wanting to dominate one’s brothers and sisters, of wanting to possess and dominate nature and God Himself."

Francis also criticized the way that many governments have handled the pandemic, pointing out that work-from-home situations and online education are not viable options for many poor people. The pope, who frequently comments on social justice issues, said that these problems are not new but that the pandemic has "exposed and aggravated" a widening "inequality" between the rich and poor. Francis urged people to use the pandemic as an opportunity to address an "economic system of social injustice and depreciating care for the environment." "May the Christian communities of the twenty-first century recuperate this reality — care for creation and social justice: they go together — thus bearing witness to the Lord’s Resurrection," he said. Throughout the pandemic, Francis has spoken to a global audience, stressing that it reveals social inequality in many developed nations. In March, he blessed the world in a televised ceremony in which he said that the world had failed to "listen to the cry of the poor nor of our gravely ailing planet" before the coronavirus.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pope-francis-pandemic-reveals-unjust-wealth-inequality-that-cries-out-to-heaven

The universal destination of goods and the virtue of hope

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>>10433312

His story really pulls at the heart strings.

>>10433369

Agree, they don't need another dime from anyone in the world. They have done nothing but lie, cheat and steal and spy, all the while telling it parishioners they were, sinners, evil, and not worth much moar than the money they stuck in their envelopes each week.

>>10433503

He was a excellent choice for this conversation!

>>10433410

That thought crossed my mind..but thinking moar that he will just suddenly drop and die. Suicide would not follow the tenants of their church and would definitely cause quite a stir in Italy.

>>10433539

With all of the violence against the Police since the George Floyd episode, do you really blame them they need to do CYA to make sure they don't have another out break of violence.