Opinion: The CDC finally admits that the coronavirus can linger in the air

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Many had heard long ago that COVID-19 could be transmitted in aerosol form. The problem was, the CDC wasn’t buying it. The agency finally ceded as much this week.

Aerosolized virus could certainly help explain the big differences we’ve seen in the virus risk for people outdoors versus inside. A droplet sneezed or coughed on us will be a problem in either setting. But aerosol disperses outside, diluting the viral load we otherwise might breathe, especially if we’re moving around instead of sitting down for an hour at a restaurant patio. Indoors, even if we’re a good distance from each other, it’s hanging around us with nowhere else to go.

With Trump’s medical team making up one COVID story after another as the people closely associated with him fall ill, it’s not surprising that the public hasn’t taken much notice of the CDC’s new airborne-transmission guidance. In fact, the timing seemed downright propitious for Trump, as though the CDC didn’t really want the public to notice.

No one should have expected the CDC to get everything right at the beginning. It’s called the “novel” coronavirus because it is entirely new. All we understood at first was that it was quite contagious and appeared considerably more lethal than, say, flu. But we also don’t know how many lives could have been saved if the CDC had led, instead of followed, on issues like public masking and airborne transmission. And now winter is coming.

 

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opinion And in other news, water is wet. 🙄

opinion There's a covid idiot that is occupying the Whitehouse. He's still contagious, but he wants to start his campaign rallies again:-(

opinion If you enter a room with a sick person, you may get it, even if everyone is masked. So stop melting down when a man enters his house and removes his mask unless you plan to set the example & live the rest of your life in solitary confinement.

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