{"id":2892,"date":"2007-11-01T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/make_grand_empty_promises_first_ask_questions_later.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:20:29","slug":"make_grand_empt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/make_grand_empt.html","title":{"rendered":"Make Grand Empty Promises First, Ask Questions Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good idea, until it became clear no one could possibly do it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Health and education officials canceled a recommendation yesterday that called for scrubbing schools daily in the wake of the “superbug” scare, but admitted they don’t have a concrete plan to handle new infections.<\/p>\n

News of the death of Omar Rivera, a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy, of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection prompted both agencies to send out a joint advisory last Friday.<\/p>\n

It called for all schools to “clean ‘flat surfaces’ every day. This includes desktops, cafeteria tables, door knobs, toilet seats, sinks and drinking fountains.”<\/p>\n

But speaking on WNYC radio yesterday, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said washing every school desk every day isn’t needed to stop the spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA.<\/p>\n

The desk-cleaning advisory was removed from the Department of Health’s Web site.<\/p>\n

“It was an error on the part of the department, and when it was brought to our attention, we removed it,” Frieden later told The Post.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now<\/em> you tell us:<\/p>\n

Frieden further downplayed worries about MRSA. He noted that the only place it spreads in schools is on sports teams, and that regular hand-washing is the best prevention.<\/p>\n

“I think the only thing close to reaching epidemic proportions here is fear,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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