What is missing from this CDC school reopening priority list? Airborne virus guidance! Like almost nothing in 33 page document on ventilation except 1 paragraph on open the windows, but only if feasible. Ventilation should be #2 behind masks! #COVID19 https://t.co/WrHVbv1ftr pic.twitter.com/WA2T2yDkVN
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 12, 2021
2) Notably absent from new CDC guidance was ventilation. In one short paragraph, CDC suggested schools open windows & doors to increase circulation, but said they should not be “if doing so poses a safety risk or a health risk.” #COVID19 https://t.co/Nvu4MolvIl
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 12, 2021
3) “C.D.C. gives lip service to ventilation in its report, and you have to search to find it,” said @j_g_allen, an expert on building safety at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. “It’s not as prominent as it should be.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 12, 2021
4) The section on ventilation does link to more information online. But all of that is buried, relative to a misguided emphasis on cleaning surfaces like outdoor playground equipment, said Linsey Marr, an expert in airborne transmission of viruses at Virginia Tech...
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 12, 2021
5) “I think the balance is incorrect in putting so much emphasis on cleaning surfaces and almost no emphasis on cleaning the air, given what we know about how the virus spreads,” Marr said.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 12, 2021
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