WASHINGTON — Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall on Tuesday called for less COVID-19 testing and an end to tracking COVID-19 cases that don’t result in hospitalizations or deaths, as part of an effort to “learn to live” with a virus that has disrupted the country for two years.
In an op-ed for the conservative outlet The Daily Caller, Marshall suggested that people should only be tested for COVID-19 if it would affect a patient’s treatment plan, the way you might test for the flu or strep throat, and said the state and country should only keep track of people who are hospitalized or die from COVID-19, instead of keeping track of all cases.
“We must stop the obsession with COVID, stop living in fear and move forward,” Marshall wrote. “But first, the White House, CDC and national media will have to wean themselves off their fixation with eye-grabbing headlines that are causing Americans to live in fear.”
