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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this is the CDC’s definition:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

[quote]Term
Close Contact
Definition
Close Contact through Proximity and Duration of Exposure: Someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes). An infected person can spread SARS-CoV-2 starting from 2 days before they have any symptoms (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days before the positive specimen collection date), until they meet criteria for discontinuing home isolation.

Exception: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time.
This exception does not apply to teachers, staff, or other adults in the indoor classroom setting.[/quote]

Exception?!  Exception???

The CDC knows this is going to lead to spread.  For alpha, I was with them. The transmission risk was a lot lower and if some kids got it fine.

But delta is a different ball of wax, as Francis Collins and Fauci have been saying this week.

F.  This is going to be a hot mess.  [/quote]

I know, right???
That exception. And those 6 feet indoors, with or without an exception, are from the ancestral covid days of an airborne but not very contagious covid, and were already wrong, because they represented how inexplicably reluctant all public health organizations have been to accept the obvious fact that covid is airborne. But with delta! Unforgivable.[/quote]

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