Posted on 05/19/2020 9:10:21 PM PDT by bitt
Not the main way it spreads
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance on COVID-19 to say that the disease "does not spread easily" on contaminated surfaces.
Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! The disease has always been thought to spread mainly through person-to-person contact by respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. But up until recently, the CDC maintained that the virus could also spread through contact with contaminated surfaces.
Now the CDC says "the virus spreads easily between people" but "does not spread easily in other ways." Under the second section, the guidance reads: "It may be possible for COVID-19 to spread in other ways, but these are not thought to be the main ways the virus spreads."
According to Yahoo News, the guidance used to simply say that spread in other ways "may be possible," without the added disclaimer. This is, of course, a subtle change, but still one of interest.
What's the background?
Much of the thinking on the virus' spread through contaminated surfaces stemmed from a New England Journal of Medicine study in March that found the virus could survive in the air for hours and on certain surfaces for days. In the study, the virus was detected up to four hours later on copper, up to one day later on cardboard, and up to three days later on plastic and stainless steel.
Though the study never purported to say that people who touched those surfaces could become infected, guidance on the matter advised caution.
In April, when the Food and Drug Administration announced that customers don't need to worry about contracting the virus from grocery packaging, CDC guidance expressed caution, citing the study.
It should be noted that the World Health Organization has not updated its guidance on contaminated surfaces and still states that "COVID-19 spreads primarily from person to person," but "can also spread if you touch contaminated objects and surfaces."
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Make up your minds, CDC!
We have mayors allowing people to walk on wet sandy beaches, but not on dry sandy beaches.
We have mayors not allowing Boy Scouts to place American Flags on gravesites this coming Memorial Day.
We have mayors allowing Singles Tennis matches, but not Doubles. Plus, you cannot touch the other players balls!
Well, you know what I mean.
Stupid stuff, like that.
No kidding! Forget about the CDC and WHO
Best to consult with your doctor.
More guesses by the CDC. They have no idea how it spreads. It is either airborne or through contaminated surfaces. I would be shocked if it was not mostly through contaminated surfaces. But probably both.
There is nothing in the world as incompetent as a government run operation.
Any government run operation.
I don't get it. Professional baseball and football is allowed, with much touching of balls. Why not ban all sports then? Certainly dangerous to share locker rooms and showers. But ordinary people playing tennis seems safe, especially if they're family related or close friends who would be enjoying each other's company anyway. Crazy local officials who don't have common sense!
So MAYBE the peasants will be able to find a few Clorox and Lysol wipes later this week....
...assuming we appropriately grovel and “practice ‘social distancing’”.
So more people will protest... then the “second wave” and if we hadn’t have listen to Trump 800 Million people wouldn’t have died.
When all the hospitals go belly up the government will take them over...
Same agenda... different day.
The giggling Gidget give a whole new meaning to “ball tapping”.
No /s No LOL
If you don’t get it you don’t need or deserve and explanation.
It “might” even be through cosmic rays.
Remember, listen to the scientists!
Listen to the scientists contradict themselves every other day.
Read the original in #3. "Well, you know what I mean." His /s intentionally left off. No need to go there.
If tennis players who spend the entire game quite separated can no longer shake hands and must click racquets at the end of a game, what fresh hell will they do to hockey, where everyone is touching all the time, including fighting, and especially the group hugs at a goal scored??They’ve already Got gloves and helmets on!
Slowly inching the towel back.
In a a year the CDC will state COVID was no more deadly than the common cold.
This whole thing was a goat screw. A giant comedic show that cost millions their jobs, delays in health care, loss in education, hundreds of billions in lost taxes and trillions in debts.
This whole thing was a goat screw. A giant comedic show that cost millions their jobs, delays in health care, loss in education, hundreds of billions in lost taxes and trillions in debts.
wow. My exact thoughts! Thanks!
All the Karen’s on the local FB groups are screaming follow the science. Anyone who dares question how they hey have changed their minds multiple times is told to shut up and realize we are still learning about it.
We all have a right to question it, particularly when millions are out of work and they keep changing recommendations.
Hopefully nothing. One of my son-in-laws is into hockey, all the time. Plays on a team with his buddies and everything else is secondary. They live in Des Moines. I have some of his gear here so when he visits California he can play here. Well they were going to come this month but cancelled due to the idiotic shelter-in-place rules here. Iowa is saner. Miss my grandkids, so cute dressed up in their own hockey gear.
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