#Aerosol

1/ Watch how coronavirus spreads indoors in a room, a bar, and a classroomA short article in @FastCompany about the @elpaisinenglish aerosol infographics, that explains the caveats well:https://www.fastcompany.com/90569949/watch-how-coronav
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HOLY HELL—CDC has now taken down the “coronavirus is aerosol & airborne” guidance from yesterday!!!! It’s like gone!! Instead it puts up some ‘a draft version was put up in
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This study tested how rhinovirus transmits. Briefly, ppl infected w/ rhinovirus played cards for 12 hours w/ uninfected ppl. Some of the uninfected were stopped from touching face. Rate of
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@twitter wouldn't let @caruzycki tweet his thread re ventilation so I'm posting it here for him. He's an aerosol scientist who has joined & lent his expertise to #Masks4Canada. :
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1/ The Skagit Choir outbreak was dominated by aerosol transmission52 out of 60 infected after 2.5 hr practiceOur Skagit Choir Paper has been accepted after peer review, available at:https://twitter.com/ShellyMBoulder/status/1306352867213631
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Une nouvelle étude (non "peer reviewed" pour l'instant) plaide en faveur d'une diffusion du coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 par aérosols (fines gouttelettes et/ou particules en suspension dans l'air).https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11
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Precautions and immune system play important role to determine who would be infected and who would not be. That is why it is dangerous when @WHO downplays novel coronavirus as
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The #COVID19 aerosol and droplets with speech, visualized. If #Masks4All hadn't sunk in by this late juncture, seeing is believing. Loud speech is worse. @NEJM today https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800?query=featured_home Check out
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**5 questions during BBC interview today**@LauraTrevelyan @BBCWorld Q1: Surprised so many around Trump tested positive?A1: No. Always a matter of when, not if.[THREAD] Q2: Looking at the floor plans of
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UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (3/19/20)Here is a bullet point summary of today’s episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV). The purpose of this episode was to answer YOUR questions! I encourage
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Dear #Saskatchewan,Time is of the essence in containing #COVID19SK, esp. when our epidemic “curve” is no longer flat. The Effective Reproductive Number “R(t)” is now 2.2Pls add measures to control
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A friend asked me about why results from our recent paper on aerosol and surface stability disagreed with those from another study that got press suggesting the virus was "viable
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Smoking gun—Floating virus can infect cells. New study provides “unambiguous evidence” that “airborne virus plays a significant role in community transmission”, says aerosol experts. This means we need to step
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Circumstantial evidence for fecal-aerosol #SARSCoV2 transmission "chimney effect" of toilet flushing in a high-rise building with escape of bioaerosols in the drainage systemhttps://www.acpjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.7326/M20-0928Just
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1/ This paper is very interesting:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38808-z It summarises some of the literature on the aerosolisation of particles during speech and reports impact of increasing speech volume on aerosolisation. Here's my
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Healthcare worker infections3rd Aug #COVID19vic #HCW3 Graphs Showing Ongoing Worrying Trends in Victoria 1. Cumulative and new cases in healthcare workers3241 cumulative cases35 new casesHow many have been/are hospitalised, in
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