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Washington Covid-19 outbreak: New variants flout old 'close contact' rule - CNN
(CNN)Washington, DC is coping with a cluster of high-profile Covid-19 cases after a series of public events exposed high-level officials.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Susan Collins and Raphael Warnock, and Rep. Peter DeFazio have all this week announced that they tested positive.
Health experts say the outbreak may be rooted, in part, in outdated and confusing guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that help people assess their risk of getting the virus that causes Covid-19 or passing it on to others.
On Thursday, after announcing that she had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19, Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the Senate confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson without wearing a mask, though CDC guidelines advise masking around other people for at least 10 days after exposure to the virus.
The same day, at a press event for World Health Day, Xavier Becerra, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, explained that he and World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysesus would both be wearing masks at the event -- except while speaking -- "because each of us has been close to someone who tested positive recently."
Health experts said Friday that Americans are relying on CDC guidance that's overdue for an update.
Origins of the 6-foot rule
Since the early days of the pandemic, the CDC has defined someone who's a "close contact" -- and is therefore at risk of contracting and spreading the virus -- as someone who has spent a cumulative total of at least 15 minutes within 6 feet of another person who has lab-confirmed Covid-19 or who's been told they have Covid-19 by a doctor.
With newer, more contagious variants such as BA.2 on the loose, Kimberly Prather, an aerosol scientist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, said the rule needs rethinking.
"Fifteen minutes and 6 feet was not really useful in the first place," she said. "We know people get infected in less time and longer distanced."
Prather thinks the rule for close contact should have been based on anyone sharing the air in a room for a certain number of minutes.
Distance, specifically the distance of 6 feet, has been in the infection equation since in the late 1800s, when a scientist named Carl Flugge figured out that infections could be transmitted by respiratory droplets through the air. He recommended separating people to prevent infections. Scientists tested it using glass plates and came up with a distance of 6 feet.
In the 1930s, another scientist, William F. Wells, figured out that although some droplets that come from the mouth or nose are large and fall to the ground quickly -- within 3 to 6 feet -- sick people can also emit smaller virus-filled aerosols that float in the air for minutes or even hours. Those can also be infectious.
Evidence of airborne spread
Since March 2020, when 52 members of a choir in Skagit County, Washington, got Covid-19 after attending practice with just one person who was sick, health officials have known that the virus that causes Covid-19 can be transmitted by smaller aerosols, making distance less important than ventilation and time.
Yet the CDC continues to factor 6 feet into its risk equations.
In response to a question from CNN, a CDC spokesperson said Thursday that the agency was not planning to change the close contact definition "at this time."
"If you were part of an event where there's multiple infections, you will have been exposed. I don't care if it's 6 feet or 15," said Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University.
If you're exposed but up to date on your vaccinations, Del Rio said, you should watch for symptoms and wear a mask for 10 days, which is what the CDC says, too.
"If I was in that room with Pelosi and others where they got infected, I would consider myself a close contact because I was there," he said. It's not known exactly where Pelosi was infected, but she was among lawmakers who appeared maskless with President Biden at a signing ceremony on Wednesday. According to CDC guidelines, Pelosi was not considered to be a close contact of the President, the White House said in a statement.
That's closer to the way some other countries have defined exposure.
Until February, when the UK began to roll back its pandemic restrictions, health authorities there defined a close contact more broadly. Their definition included anyone who:
Lives with someone who tests positive
■ Has face-to-face contact or a conversation within about 3 feet of someone who has tested positive
■ Has been within 3 feet for 1 minute or longer, regardless of whether the contact was face-to-face
■ Has spent more than 15 minutes within 6 feet of someone who tested positive
■ Has traveled in the same vehicle or plane with a positive case
Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech University who studies aerosols, said the CDC needs to take another look at its contact precautions.
"I do think they should update it, because I think it's based on outdated thinking about transmission," she said.
Marr said the CDC probably made the cutoffs of 6 feet and 15 minutes to try to make the best use of limited public health resources such as contract tracing.
"It's based more on convenience than on science at this point," she said.
Marr said that all superspreading events have four things in common: lots of talking, shouting or singing; long exposure times; poor ventilation; and no masks.
"If you have that type of situation, then I would say everyone in the room is potentially exposed," she said.
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Parents struggle to find baby formula amid widespread shortages and rationing - CBS News
One of the most important products for new parents is in short supply. Baby formula, which three-quarters of babies in the U.S. receive within their first six months, is increasingly out of stock at retailers across the country.
The supply of formula is so constrained that retailers like Walgreens are even limiting how much consumers can purchase at one time. A spokesperson for the drugstore chain told CBS MoneyWatch it is limiting customers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction, citing "increased demand and various supplier issues."
Supply-chain snarls related to COVID-19 are contributing to the shortage of formula around the U.S. They include manufacturers having more difficulty procuring key ingredients, packaging hangups and labor shortages, with those factors combining to affect production and distribution. In addition, a major baby formula recall in January exacerbated shortages.
At retailers across the U.S., 29% of the top-selling baby formula products were out of stock as of the week of March 13, according to an analysis by Datasembly, which tracked baby formula stock at more than 11,000 stores. That's up sharply from 11% in November.
"This is a shocking number that you don't see for other categories," Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly told CBS MoneyWatch.
"We've been tracking it over time and it's going up dramatically. We see this category is being affected by economic conditions more dramatically than others," Reich added.
In 24 U.S. states, 30% of formula was out of stock as of mid-March, while other states were seeing even more severe shortages. In Minnesota, 54% of baby formula products were out of stock that same time. Parents in Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, North and South Dakota, Rhode Island and Texas are also grappling with severe shortages of at least 40%, according to Datasembly.
By comparison, over the first seven months of 2021, between 2% and 8% of baby formula products were out of stock.
"We've noticed it being difficult to find maybe a couple months ago — two, three months ago — and then just recently we can't find it," San Francisco resident Irene Anhoeck told CBS News earlier this year. "We've tried all the local Targets. We checked Costco, Costco online, Walgreens, Long's. Can't find it anywhere."
Product shortages were further exacerbated in February, when Abbott Nutrition issued a widespread recall of its powdered baby formula products, following reports of illness among infants who had consumed the baby products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week issued a warning telling consumers not to use any of the recalled products manufactured at Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility, after it found the plant to be unsanitary.
Avoid hoarding
The Infant Nutrition Council of America recently assured parents in a statement on its website that manufacturers are increasing production to meet families' needs. The council also encourages parents to keep a 10-day to two-week supply or formula at home, while urging them not to stockpile products.
A spokesperson for CVS Health acknowledged that "product supply challenges are currently impacting most of the retail industry." The company is working with "national brand baby formula vendors to address this issue and we regret any inconvenience that our customers may be experiencing," the spokesperson added.
In January, Enfamil, a leading baby formula brand, said it was coping with an unprecedented 18% surge in demand for baby formula nationwide.
"We have taken steps to ramp up production and are currently shipping 50% more product, to address issues as fast as possible," a spokesperson for Reckitt, maker of Enfamil, told CBS News in a statement at the time.
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Original article: CNN Falls Victim to Internet Smear
"Ők csak a békét keresik az erőszak által" védi a CNN az erőszakos anarchistákat.
A nap vicce lenne a hazug Fake News CNN propganadáról, ha nem lenne véresen komoly!
"Lehull az álarc a baloldali Antifa mozgalomról. Ők csak a békét keresik az erőszak által írja a CNN.", mely ezzel az ostoba demagóg szöveggel próbálja védeni a baloldali erőszakos Antifa csoportokat, akik botokkal, késekkel, molotov-koktélokkal felfegyverkezve sokkal inkább hasonlítanak a fasisztákra, mint antifasisztákra!
Rátámadnak a történelmi hagyományokat, nemzeti érzéseket., de akár csak a szólásszabadásgot védő emberekre is. Gyakorlatilag mindenkire, akik nem értenek egyet velük, legyen szó liberalizmusról, bevándorlásról, feketékről és melegekről. De elsődleges célpontjaik a Trump elnökkel szoimpatizálók.
"Jól szervezett, komoly anyagi háttérrel rendelkező - külső és felettük álló erők által mozgatott - szervezetről van szó, akárcsak a Black Lives Matter (Fekete Életek Számítanak) szervezet esetében.
- "Az Antifa erőszakos csoportjai létfontosságú támogatást a baloldaltól kapják és hatalmas globalisták (Soros Gy.) szervezetei állnak mögöttük!
- A Trump-érában az erőszakos baloldali megmozdulások olyan mértékben növekednek, mint soha azelőtt!- Middlebury-től Berkeley-ig ésPortland-ig "az erőszakot használják fel arra, hogy tagadhassák a tényt, hogy Trump támogatása és az elnököt támogatók tábora egyre jobban nő (különösen a fiatalok körében). "
Eközben a főáramú MsNBC és CNN szerda eset leadott programjai olyan durván támogatják a baloldali erőszakot és olyan szinten támadták Trump elnököt, hogy itt már nyugodtan beszélhetünk az események egy második fázisáról, mely sokkal durvább, erőszakosabb és kaotikusabb lesz, mint valaha.
Az Antifa méltán kiérdemelte a "terrorcsoport" címet, mivel mindenki ellen megfélemlítést, verést, erőszakot, késelést alkalmaz, aki vele nem ért egyet, illetve akinek a nézeteit támadni akarja. Sőt az Antifa és vele szimpatizáló baloldali poltikusok, aktivisták már gyilkosságokra, sőt az Egyesült államok elnökének meggyilkolására is felszólították híveiket!
✔ Már 150ezer aláíró követeli az Antifa erőszakos baloldali anarchista csoportok terrorszervezetté nyilvánítását a sorozatos erőszakos akcióik és gyilkosságra buzdításuk miatt
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✔ A baloldali erőszak lett a főáramú norma - Újabb felforgatásba kezdtek a Soros-Antifa(sz)ervezetek - "Az erőszakos baloldal felemelkedése"
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✔ Ezért nem tudom teljes mellszélességgel támogatni a hamburgi maszkos Antifa anarchistákat - saját vélemény
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