CDC Updates Covid-19 Guidelines, Acknowledging Virus Can Spread via Tiny Air Particles

WSJ ^ | 10-5-2020 | By Caitlin McCabe and Betsy McKay

[sitetest]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said tiny particles that linger in the air can spread the coronavirus, revising its guidelines on the matter just a few weeks after the health agency had acknowledged a role for the particles and then abruptly removed it.

The guidelines on how the coronavirus spreads were initially updated last month to acknowledge a role, and possibly the primary one, played by tiny aerosol particles in spreading the virus. But the agency removed the changes only days later, saying a draft version of the proposed changes had been posted in error.

In its latest revisions to the guidelines Monday, the CDC acknowledged a role for the tiny airborne particles, though the latest wording says they aren’t the main way the virus spreads.

[sitetest]

Kinda calls into question just how useful masks are against infection.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so....masks ARE USELESS!

[AU72]

Sounds like the CDC is making it up as it goes along.

[funfan]

Will Biden quarantine now and Chris Wallace aftercall they have been exposed at the debate right?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Honestly. We give then $8 billion a year to prepare to protect us from EXACTLY THIS and they are an EPIC FAIL.

Another agency that needs to be dismantled, just like the FBI.

[LIConFem]

Also kinda calls into question how useful these CDC guidelines really are.

[TeddyRay]

How does it spread then? So not really in the air and not on surfaces???

[sitetest]

Probably not entirely.

But largely.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Embrace herd immunity. Because that is how this story ends, like it or not.

[JennysCool]

Magic dust.

[sitetest]

That obvious? ;-)

[byecomey]

Previously, droplets were alleged to be the main mode of transmission (sneezing, talking, etc). Airborne means masks are useless.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Probably not entirely. But largely.

Possibly. Not entirely. Substantially, but not exclusively. Largely but only in part.

Dr. Fauci, is that you??

[sitetest]

I think someone from the folks running the debate is “patient 0” for this outbreak.

[sitetest]

Yup.

[rktman]

Well shut down the wind mills then.

[thoolou]

Masks are as useless as the CDC...

[sitetest]

Answer: Not at all.

[Wayne07]

Literally the opposite - masks are doubly important if it is airborne. Ask the president.

[sitetest]

Seemingly both.