CDC has walked back Covid-19 information posted on its website 3 days ago.
It was"not surprising or jarring," Dr. Jill Weatherhead, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said.
"The scientific community has been raising the alarm about this since February, that airborne spread can happen," said Joseph Allen, an associate professor in the department of environmental health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. So infectious disease experts were perplexed Monday, when the CDC scrubbed that section of the website of any mention of airborne transmission, writing that"a draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency's official website."
The agency reverted to its previous language, stating that the virus is thought to spread"between people who are in close contact with one another ."Sign Up
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