While some have announced this as new from the CDC…
It isn’t….
The CDC has had the same advice statements…
Washing ones hands IS the best and easiest way to keep the virus from spreading…
That and keeping your hands from your face…
The CDC’s position is that the virus spreads MOSTLY from person to person contact and that is thru droplets that enter the mucus membrains in the nose…Also?
Close contact seems to increase the exposure factor for catching the virus…Causal short exposures tend to not….
I have noticed that more and more people do NOT wear gloves anymore…
But almost everyone has a mask when they enter a store….
Good….
Keep those droplets from spreading….
CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said Thursday that the revisions were the product of an internal review and “usability testing.”
“Our transmission language has not changed,” Nordlund said. “Covid-19 spreads mainly through close contact from person to person.”
The virus travels through the droplets a person produces when talking or coughing, the CDC website says. An individual does not need to feel sick or show symptoms to spread the submicroscopic virus. Close contact means within about six feet, the distance at which a sneeze flings heavy droplets.
Example after example have shown the microbe’s affinity for density. The virus has spread easily in nursing homes, prisons, cruise ships and meatpacking plants — places where many people are living or working in proximity. A recent CDC report described how a choir practice in Washington state in March became a super-spreader event when one sick person infected as many as 52 others.
“Direct contact with people has the highest likelihood of getting infected — being close to an infected person, rather than accepting a newspaper or a FedEx guy dropping off a box,” said virologist Vincent Munster, a researcher in the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases facility in Hamilton, Mont.
Munster and his colleagues showed in laboratory experiments that the virus remained potentially viable on cardboard for up to 24 hours and on plastic and metal surfaces for up to three days. But the virus typically degrades within hours when outside a host….
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Not a ton to say about this one. We continue to see death tolls decline week over week. The number of cases has been flat lately instead of declining, however… but testing has increased a lot so the positive test rate remains in decline (though a bit higher today than Wed.)
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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
One thing I worry about, if cases remain steady/declining, is people concluding “re-opening doesn’t raise transmission” when the more likely conclusion is “re-opening does raise transmission, but is being counteracted by other factors that lower transmission”.