Thank you! How nutty is that? The CDC had clearly had this on their website for over a month for crying out loud and every national news source is now trumpeting this like it’s major breaking news because some idiot at the Post didn’t read the fine print.
It’s the CDCs website, for goodness sake. How hard can it be to research that??
That’s the media for you.
This news article says that the CDC did make changes to that site this month (perhaps they didn't update the date of update?) but it sounds like maybe it's just changes in editing and formatting. And it sounds like the CDC pushed this out.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/22/the-latest-trump-lashes-out-at-scientists-whose-findings-contradict-him/First article on page is "Ex-FDA commissioner urges nuanced read of CDC’s updated guidelines on transmission via surfaces"
It's quoting a CNBC interview, and says, in part:
“Most of the transfer here is probably from respiratory droplets and sustained human contact with people, but I wouldn’t discount the probability that there is some spread through contaminated surfaces,” Gottlieb said...
Gottlieb said he doesn’t read the study that informed the CDC’s revision as “definitively saying the disease can’t be spread through inert surfaces,” and he stressed that mass transit, offices and any surface that numerous people touch throughout the day should still be diligently disinfected...."
So that was my question.
Is there a new study that led to the revision? Or is this just a re-wording of the earlier finding, with a different conclusion?
Earlier: Covid
might occasionally spread via surfaces. So let's all stay home and sanitize surfaces.
Now: Covid
only occasionally spreads via surfaces. So let's open up and not worry about surfaces.
