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SafeGuard Surveillance owner Ed Campbell wants to know what s driving Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration to block school districts from being reimbursed through federal COVID-19 relief funding for using his company s coronavirus surveillance testing. (Provided by SafeGuard Surveillance)
CHICAGO This story about coronavirus saliva tests might make you mad enough to spit.
It boils down to this question: Is Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration trying to rig the market for coronavirus testing in public schools to favor University of Illinois budding COVID-19 testing operation, Shield Illinois?
That s difficult to answer, apparently.
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Pritzker s administration didn t respond to queries related to the very interesting timing, as one school district administrator put it, of a policy change on surveillance testing in schools. The change effectively made districts ineligible for reimbursement through federal coronavirus r
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Have a Case of a COVID Variant? No One Is Going To Tell You
There are arguments for and against notifying patients.
Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the U.S., but there’s one big problem: Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a variant.
Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
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Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the U.S., but there’s one big problem: Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a variant.
Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
“It could be associated with a person in a high-risk congregate setting or it might not be, but without patient information, we don’t know what we don’t know,” Hamilton said. The group has asked federal officials to waive the rules. “Time is ticking.”