The CDC says a new thing about how the virus spreads:
Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed online guidance about airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the agency has replaced it with language citing new evidence that the virus can spread beyond six feet indoors, adrift in the air.
“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” the new guidance said. “Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”
Or shouting or haranguing…
Despite the time former Vice President Joseph R. Biden spent with President Trump during the presidential debate, Mr. Biden is continuing to campaign because he did not meet the C.D.C. requirement for close contact — less than six feet of distance from an infected person.
But in a statement to the press accompanying the new guidance, the C.D.C. said, “People are more likely to become infected the longer and closer they are to a person with Covid-19.”
Mr. Trump talked loudly and at length during the debate, which experts said could have released ten times as much virus as breathing alone.
Um.
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5 responses to “Loudly and at length”
Don’t see why they were even in the same room… It wasn’t necessary.
Maybe it was an erotic necessity?
Sorry. I’ll go wash my mind out with soap now.
A part of me thinks it’s great that CDC are finally putting out science based advice. I can’t help but wonder at this specific advice coming out a day after the White House and Trump campaign tried saying that Biden should stop campaigning while Trump was in hospital though. Even if it’s true advice the fact they have withdrawn previous true advice under political pressure makes this suspect. God I hate the Trump effect.
Iknklast (if that is your real name), pass the soap when you’re done.
Rob, I was thinking the same thing. Trump has to recover / quarantine, while Biden is free to campaign? “Oh, umm, you know what, we just realised that in the context of a presidential debate the virus can in fact spread more than six feet through the air”
Seems more accurate, I think.