It had been widely shared within the CDC and included detailed “decision trees,” flow charts to be used by local officials to think through different scenarios. Some of the report’s suggestions already appear on federal websites. 1 0 obj 2 0 obj CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield has been a member of the White House coronavirus task force, but largely absent from public appearances. We’re still in editing.” She told CNN, ”It was more about simplification.”. �ɘ`W��� H�ch��N>��m`>��]�XQ8IIh��Oۮ��]��7MY|�3ɹ�5B�����nх>t�Y�& ������X��Ly`�I�k�3; �tf+����:�]��Ee�J'i����;��1u>�\]�-��Fe�}#Fu�����6Y�>��y�o�:�&U+� �Ս���LL����7�b�7hŁV�? They instructed state and local governments to reopen in accordance with federal and local “regulations and guidance” and to … <>/XObject<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 1920 1080] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> %PDF-1.5 People have clicked on the CDC’s coronavirus website more than 1.2 billion times. It’s a state-led effort on ... which the federal government will consult. Still, behind the scenes, CDC scientists like those who produced the guidance for “Opening Up America Again″ are working to get information to local governments. Asked Thursday about the CDC report, White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Deborah Birx said: “No one has stopped those guidelines. “States and local health departments do need guidance on a lot of the challenges around the decision to reopen,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. The AP is solely responsible for all content. At a briefing Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany echoed the administration’s stance that states are most responsible for their own COVID-19 response: “We’ve consulted individually with states, but as I said, it’s (a) governor-led effort. 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But the shelved report also said that as restaurants start seating diners again, they should space tables at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) apart and try to use phone app technology to alert a patron when their table is ready to avoid touching and use of buzzers. 3 0 obj “Opening Up American Again” guidelines - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. stream FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listens. Similar tips appear on the CDC’s site and a Food and Drug Administration page. The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team, titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,” was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners, educators and state and local officials as they begin to reopen. Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Haley Townsend (WCMH). President Trump is pushing to get Americans back to normal life from coronavirus lockdowns within weeks under new reopening guidelines shared with governors on Thursday, The Post has learned. That’s not on the CDC’s site now. That has not occurred, and everyone sees that.”. “CDC has always been the public health agency Americans turn to in a time of crisis,” said Dr. Howard Koh, a Harvard professor and former health official in the Obama administration during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009. It was supposed to be published last Friday, but agency scientists were told the guidance “would never see the light of day,” according to a CDC official. Wonder what the U.S. CDC's “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework” was about? <> The White House guidance also included advice developed earlier in the pandemic that remains important like social distancing and encouraging working from home. <> One page of the document can be found on the CDC website via search engines, but it did not appear to be linked to any other CDC pages. The White House’s own “Opening Up America Again” guidelines released last month were more vague than the CDC’s unpublished report. <>>> “The standard in a crisis is to turn to them for the latest data and latest guidance and the latest press briefing. States that directly reach out to the CDC can tap guidance that’s been prepared but that the White House has not released. The Trump administration has shelved a set of detailed documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen mass transit, day care centers, restaurants, bars and other public places during the still-raging pandemic. <> But the guidance offered specific, tailored recommendations for reopening in one place. Well wonder no more, the AP managed to obtain and release this 17 page document that Trump attempted to stop the release of: CDC Business Plans Draft COVID-19 reopening guidance from CDC. The Trump administration has been closely controlling the release of guidance and information during the pandemic spurred by a new coronavirus that scientists are still trying to understand, with the president himself leading freewheeling daily briefings until last week. Discover everything Scribd has to offer, including books and audiobooks from major publishers. endobj “You can say that restaurants can open and you need to follow social distancing guidelines. %���� It’s just the process of getting stuff out,” Plescia said. GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak. The dearth of real-time, public information from the nation’s experts has struck many current and former government health officials as dangerous.