Media Relations (404) 639-3286Today, CDC issued updated guidance to its How COVID-19 Spreads website, which includes information about the potential for airborne spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.CDC continues to believe, based on current science, that people are more likely to become infected the longer and closer they are to a person with COVID-19.
Today’s update acknowledges the existence of some published reports showing limited, uncommon circumstances where people with COVID-19 infected others who were more than 6 feet away or shortly after the COVID-19-positive person left an area.
In these instances, transmission occurred in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces that often involved activities that caused heavier breathing,.