Alexander told NIH staff that it makes no logical sense to test those who may have been exposed to Covid-19 but arent showing symptoms. The president insisted throughout Wednesday that masking the severity of the threat was necessary to keeping the nation calm, arguing that hed saved lives and declining to take responsibility for a Covid-19 death toll that will soon top 200,000. No one tells me what I can say and cannot say, he told POLITICO. "Even if a test were 98% sensitive and 99% specific, it would still produce a false negative result in 2 of every 100 people infected," they wrote. The agency's chief medical device regulator, Jeff Shuren, and diagnostics director Tim Stenzel warned that low-quality tests risk producing false leads  adding unnecessary burden to the nation's contact-tracing and isolation efforts.
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