{"id":40713,"date":"2020-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/cdc-now-acknowledges-airborne-transmission-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:10:09","slug":"cdc-now-acknowledges-airborne-transmission-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/cdc-now-acknowledges-airborne-transmission-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Now Acknowledges Airborne Transmission of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Agency says it is especially true in enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Infection with the new coronavirus can occur through airborne transmission between people farther than 6 feet apart, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged in an update to its website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said this is especially true in enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC update comes in response to growing evidence that coronavirus infection can occur through tiny droplets and particles that float in the air for minutes or even hours.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the agency removed a draft that referred to tiny airborne droplets as a source of transmission. The CDC said the draft was removed because it did not go through proper review and was posted in error, <i>The Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/10\/05\/cdc-coronavirus-airborne-transmission\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Washington Post<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/how-covid-spreads.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says it is especially true in enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-40713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}