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Why did #CDC this weekend drop cautions about choirs and "congregant singing, chanting and reciting" from its guidelines for communities of faith?
On Friday May 22, the guidelines read:
“consider suspending or at least decreasing use of a choir/musical ensembles and congregant singing, chanting, or reciting during services or other programming, if appropriate within the faith tradition....
“consider suspending or at least decreasing use of a choir/musical ensembles and congregant singing, chanting, or reciting during services or other programming, if appropriate within the faith tradition....
...The act of singing may contribute to transmission of Covid-19, possibly through emission of aerosols.” https://web.archive.org/web/20200522192931/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/faith-based.html
But by Saturday those cautions were gone:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200524001717/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/faith-based.html
The scientific basis of concern is sound. As a biologist explains in an analyzing a case where a choir rehearsal at a church led to 45 people getting covid: ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20200524001717/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/faith-based.html
The scientific basis of concern is sound. As a biologist explains in an analyzing a case where a choir rehearsal at a church led to 45 people getting covid: ...
"Singing, to a greater degree than talking, aerosolizes respiratory droplets [with viral particles] extraordinarily well. Deep-breathing while singing facilitated those respiratory droplets getting deep into the lungs." https://bit.ly/2M3GXDl .
For my full story (based in part on the original CDC guidelines: https://prospect.org/coronavirus/when-churches-are-superspreaders/
(Thanks to Matt Schaefer for tip on CDC change.)
(Thanks to Matt Schaefer for tip on CDC change.)
