CDC May Not Act On WHO Report On How Airborne Diseases Spread

KFF Health News (5/1, Maxmen) says, “The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like covid-19, influenza, and measles.” In the report, “the WHO concluded that airborne transmission occurs as sick people exhale pathogens that remain suspended in the air, contained in tiny particles of saliva and mucus that are inhaled by others.” Although this “may seem obvious, and some researchers have pushed for this acknowledgment for more than a decade, an alternative dogma persisted – which kept health authorities from saying that covid was airborne for many months into the pandemic.” But “a committee advising the CDC appears poised to brush aside the updated science when it comes to its pending guidance on health care facilities.”