Posted on 10/04/2021 5:20:32 PM PDT by lightman
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story was based on guidance that was mistakenly posted Monday by the CDC. that updated its holiday guidance that was incorrectly posted Monday by the CDC. This story was updated at 8:00 p.m.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially updated its guidance to recommend that people open windows and use fans at holiday gatherings to increase ventilation in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
However, the agency later took down its new recommendation and said that it was guidance from last year that was posted by mistake.
The CDC's deleted post also discouraged people from having any indoor gatherings.
"Attending gatherings to celebrate events and holidays increases your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19," the CDC said. "The safest way to celebrate is virtually, with people who live with you, or outside and at least 6 feet apart from others."
And while the CDC's guidance recommended avoiding indoor gatherings altogether as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, it acknowledged that such guidance may not be followed, and thus, encouraged efforts to increase air flow.
"If celebrating indoors, bring in fresh air by opening windows and doors, if possible," the CDC says. "You can use a window fan in one of the open windows to blow air out of the window. This will pull fresh air in through the other open windows."
The CDC also emphasized in its since-deleted guidance that vaccinated individuals are more protected than those who are not. However, vaccinated people people were still encouraged to wear masks indoors in public spaces and in areas with higher levels of COVID-19 transmission. Recommended Gov. DeSantis 'Saddened' to Share Health Update About Florida's First Lady Leah Barkoukis
On Sunday, White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci said during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" that it is "too soon to tell" if Americans should gather for Christmas.
"We've just got to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we're going to do at a particular time," Fauci said.
Greta yelled at them.
BS!
Even CDC had to adnit the advice sounded a little goofy.
Easy to misinterpret and overdo.
And then earlier today both Slow Joe and the CDC said they would be eradicating COVID not through vaccines, but by implementing a series of punitive taxes and regulations.
Focus groups came back heavy on the, “what about all the extra released carbon from energy consumption, it’s winter” and the PR consultants raised a red flag on the optics so the new science didn’t last a day before it was replaced by newer science.
And tomorrow the CDC’s new learning will be that sheeps’ bladders can be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Something right out of the BB.
Well, if you don’t open doors or windows but run a fan, the entire group may suffer fan death.
Fresh air and sunshine. God’s RX.
Therefore, that advice must be squelched by Big Brother.
Was this before or after Fauci decided we would be allowed to have Christmas??
If only Saturday Night Live still employed comedy writers. These skits are begging to be written.
I like it.
Easy to be lazy and simply cut and paste the blather from a year go.
Makes a lot of (non)sense, especially in North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana and other winter locales...
yeah but did the cdc say whether i can take a dump?
anxiously waiting
Just wear your mask.
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