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“A preliminary version with the proposed changes to the recommendations [do CDC sobre o novo coronavírus] was published by mistake in website agency official ”on Friday, Deputy Director Jay Butler clarified, adding that This version has not been subjected to any technical revision.
This “CDC ruling” is being discussed by the agency so that it will not be repeated, Butler told the agency. Washington Post. “This cannot happen again.”
The document now withdrawn by the CDC recommended to the general population the use of air purifiers to reduce the circulation of germs and thus prevent Covid-19 from spreading in closed spaces.
Per agency guidelines, the new coronavirus could be carried in the air by tiny particles, known as aerosols, which can remain suspended and travel up to two meters away.
Before mistakenly publishing these guidelines, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention was only referring to human-to-human transmission of the virus via droplets in the respiratory tract.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said, in turn, Be monitoring “new evidence” on the possible transmission of the new coronavirus by air. Even so, this Monday a member of that entity assured that the aerosol transmission policy has not been modified.
Since it was first detected in December last year, the new coronavirus has infected more than 31 million people, of which almost one million are fatalities. Of the total infected, more than 21 million have already been reported as recovered.
