The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly updated its guidance earlier this month to say that the coronavirus “does not spread easily” from contaminated surfaces and is primarily transmitted through person-to-person contact. Some public health experts worry that the change could give people the impression that they don’t have to wash their hands quite so often.
Here are some significant developments:
- President Trump said Thursday that the United States would not shut down again if there is a resurgence in coronavirus infections, telling reporters, “We’re not going to close the country — we’re going to put out the fires.”
- One of the first contact tracing apps being used in the United States violates its own privacy policy by sharing citizens’ locations and personal data with an outside company.
- President Trump declined to a wear a mask during a Thursday tour of a Ford plant in Michigan, prompting admonitions from Democrats including Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
- Anthony S. Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, told CNN Thursday that he is hopeful that the White House will restore his updates to the public.
- A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that covid-19 attacks the lining of blood vessels inside patients’ lungs, a key distinction making the virus worse than the flu.
(Curated from Washington Post)
