Thread by @jljcolorado

1/ US Nurses, Unions, Allies Urge CDC to Acknowledge Covid-19 Aerosol Transmission to Help Bring Virus Under Control

aft.org/press-release/…

@rweingarten

2/ National Nurses United (NNU) and 44 allied unions and organizations, representing over 13 million members and their communities, are joining in coalition to urge the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update its Covid-19 guidance to fully reflect the...

3/ latest scientific evidence regarding SARS-CoV-2 transmission through aerosols that infected people emit when they breathe, speak, cough, sneeze, or sing.

4/ “We have hundreds of thousands of members considered essential workers and risking their lives every day to support us all. They and their employers depend on accurate science from CDC. And the science clearly shows the danger of aerosol transmission"

5/ "For the past year, the CDC guidance on COVID-19 has been ignoring science and health experts."

6/ "The CDC's failure to update their guidelines has life and death consequences. Workers are going into confined spaces every day without sufficient control measures and employers are justifying it by saying they are following CDC guidelines."

7/ "It’s critical that the CDC recognize that COVID-19 can spread via infectious aerosols. For our members, the implications of the CDC not accepting aerosolized COVID-19 transmission poses grave risk as employers rely on the CDC’s guidance to implement appropriate mitigation...

8/ ... measures. We must follow the science and acknowledge how the virus spreads to adequately protect communities, particularly as the virus mutates and potentially more virulent strains spread"

9/ "The continuing workplace outbreaks among workers in such industries as, health care, retail, grocery, food processing, warehousing, among many others, points to the critical need for improved protections based on the latest science about airborne transmission. We urge...

10/ ... the CDC to follow the science, fully recognize aerosol transmission, and update their guidance now"

I couldn't agree more. Time for @cdcgov to update their guidance.

Y importante que se actualize también rápidamente en @CDCespanol, muchos de los trabajadores esenciales son hispanos y han muerto y sufrido desproporcionadamente en esta pandemia

You can still sign the petition at;

act.medicare4all.org/signup/aerosol…