How to ignore the CDC’s new coronavirus guidelines, in six official White House photos
By Dawn Stover, October 6, 2020
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America’s national health protection agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issued updated information yesterday on how COVID-19 is thought to spread. The revised guidelines note that the coronavirus spreads easily from person to person, and most commonly between people in close contact. Nothing new there.
Until yesterday, though, the CDC had not acknowledged what many public health experts have been saying for months: “Some infections can be spread by exposure to virus in small droplets and particles that can linger in the air for minutes to hours. These viruses may be able to infect people who are further than 6 feet away from the person who is infected or after that person has left the space.” (An earlier version of the revised guidelines, posted on September 18 but retracted after CNN reported on it, was described as a “draft version” posted in error.)
Here's a handy guide to the updated CDC recommendations about how to protect yourself and others—with helpful depictions by official White House photographers of virus-spreading behaviors that should be avoided.
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Keywords: CDC, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Trump
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Dawn Stover
Dawn Stover is a contributing editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She began her career at Harper's magazine and worked... Read More
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