A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask walks past the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, March 14, 2020.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday it has posted erroneous guidelines stating that coronavirus is spread by airborne particles that can remain suspended in the air and travel beyond six feet.
“The draft version of the proposed changes to these recommendations was mistakenly posted on the agency’s official website,” the CDC said. “The CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding atmospheric transmission of SARS-COVID-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Once this process is complete, an updated language will be posted.”
Earlier in the day, the World Health Organization said it had approached the CDC about changes to the guidelines.
Dr Mike Rhea, executive director of the WHO’s health emergency program, told a news conference that the WHO had not seen any “new evidence” of aerobic particles and was investigating with the CDC to “better understand” the specific type of change. At the agency’s Geneva headquarters.
The WHO says Covid-19 is primarily transmitted by respiratory drops that pass when an infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes. Studies have shown that the new coronavirus can be spread through aerosols in the air, and the WHO says it is keeping an eye on “emerging evidence” of potential aeronautical transmission.
“The international agency’s position on this is the same,” Ryan said, and we’ve always said that over the months and months the transmission of different types of transmission has its roots, and in particular runs by context, proximity, intensity. , Duration and potential for different types of transmission. “
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