WTF? New @CDCgov guidance on airborne transmission of #COVID19 ends with a bullet claiming data indicates it’s less common than person-to-person transmission. They include a footnote that leads to no such thing. /1pic.twitter.com/w7ddFX5dUB
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WTF? New @CDCgov guidance on airborne transmission of #COVID19 ends with a bullet claiming data indicates it’s less common than person-to-person transmission. They include a footnote that leads to no such thing. /1pic.twitter.com/w7ddFX5dUB
Here’s the footnote. Clicking through also leads to NO supporting data. Where’s the data, @CDCgov @CDCDirector??? /endpic.twitter.com/QtI4vMAkRo
The public facing guidelines are much improved (and include a lot of changes) and I suspect they will again have to update the health-care worker impacting ones like this—basically on what non-COVID wards need. That's probably what the fight was about with the withdrawal/repost.
But where’s their data supporting “it is much more common for the virus that causes COVID-19 to spread through close contact with a person who has COVID-19 than through airborne transmission?”
No data; and as the aerosol scientists have been pointing out, "close-contact" spread and aerosols are compatible (and droplet physics doesn't really work the way the field of public health seems to think—I suspect it will be updated by the time we're out of this pandemic).
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