Cempa Community Care supports CDC changes to testing guidelines.
Now they don't advise that low risk people without symptoms should be tested.
Is now adjusting their guidelines, which no longer recommends testing for most people without symptoms. it only recommends individuals who are vulnerable and those who are requested to get tested by their health care providers as well as state local health officials.
Cempa community care conducts testing events within the city of chattanooga.
Leaders of the health center say the c-d-c's latest publication has been long overdue.
Testing asymptomatic individuals without any known exposure can definitely increase the burden of labs and only should be prioritized when results will impact isolation, quarantine, ppe usage, decisions, dictate eligibility for surgery or inform administration of immuno suppressive therapy.
Cempa believes testing should be prioritized for individuals with mild symptoms
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that people exposed to COVID-19 but not symptomatic may..
