CDC Issues Clarification: It ‘May Be Possible’ for CCP Virus to Spread on Surfaces

A waitress disinfects a table in a restaurant at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on May 26, 2020. Maja Hitij/Getty Images

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated guidance on how the CCP virus can spread after its quiet alteration to such guidance sparked confusion.

The federal health agency said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—also known as the novel coronavirus—only spreads easily between people and does not spread easily in other ways.