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In Departure From Fed. Guidelines, Maine CDC Makes COVID-19 Testing At Nursing Homes Higher Priority
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:04:13
Publish Date: 2020-03-26 16:07:30
Description: The Maine Center for Disease Control is now prioritizing COVID-19 test results for residents and employees in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. The change marks a departure from federal guidelines, which had originally ranked testing in such facilities as a lower priority. But the change comes amid concern that the federal test ranking was ignoring the risk of infection in nursing homes to both residents and staff.
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