Opinion | Dr. Esther Choo, Dr. Megan Ranney and Dr. Dara Kass: CDC's vague reopening guide may please President Trump, but it's terrible for America. - NBCNewsTHINK
For example, the new guidelines exhort schools, workplaces, public transportation and places of worship to “intensify” cleaning, disinfection and ventilation. Intensify how? What exactly does this mean? Toventilation, should they open windows? Put in fans? Install negative pressure ventilation? How are they to ensure that the ventilation system doesn’t? Similarly, the guidelines tell workplaces to “train all employees on safety and health protocols.
In other words, time and again, the guidelines provide little concrete guidance for achieving their stated goals. They ask schools to “encourage” social distancing and tell child care providers to “monitor distance between children not playing together.” How is that technically possible? Between the three of us, we have nine children. It is a challenge to do this in our own households, let alone in formal childcare settings.
The guidelines are also oddly repetitive, as if cut and pasted from one document to the next. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with repetition, in this case it suggests a concerning lack of in-depth thought process. It’s hard to imagine, for example, that the guidelines for reopening workplaces are truly identical to the guidelines for reopening schools — but they are here, with the alteration of only a few words and pictures.
Also concerning, the guidelines in many places ignore the current scientific evidence. They talk about symptom checking and temperature screening . But this recommendation ignores the fact that — as has been
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