{"id":208420,"date":"2020-09-21T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=208420"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:30:16","slug":"latest-cdc-report-erroneous-corona-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=208420","title":{"rendered":"Latest CDC report, Erroneous, Coronavirus Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-202735\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus2-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Washington \u00a0(CDC)\u00a0 \u00a0The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed an update on its website that stated coronavirus commonly spreads through the air, saying the post was shared by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency\u2019s official website,\u201d the organization wrote Monday. \u201cCDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has contended in the past that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted through close contact between people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the erroneously shared update,<\/strong> which was released last Friday, the CDC\u2019s coronavirus guidelines page listed \u201crespiratory droplets or small particles, such as those in aerosols\u201d as one of the ways that COVID-19 \u201cmost commonly spreads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible that COVID-19 may spread through the droplets and airborne particles that are formed when a person who has COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes,\u201d the since-deleted post read.<\/p>\n<p>Following Monday\u2019s update, the CDC\u2019s webpage says the \u201cvirus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, the World Health Organization said there was \u201cemerging evidence\u201d of an airborne spread of coronavirus after 250 scientists across the world signed an open letter urging the group to acknowledge as much.<\/p>\n<p>There have been more than 31 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, and more than 960,000 deaths. The United States has experienced more than 6 million confirmed cases and was approaching 200,000 deaths Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; By Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u00a0(CDC)\u00a0 \u00a0The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed an update on its website that stated coronavirus commonly spreads through the air, saying the post was shared by mistake. \u201cA draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency\u2019s official website,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208426,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208420\/revisions\/208426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}