#Aerosols

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

This piece suggests infection can be caused by a person with Covid-19 merely breathing within a 2 metre radius.As evidence it cites a letter that lists an assortment of studies

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Have seen comments floating around re whether the numbers used in this article are exactly correct or completely fit the epidemiology of spread etc; the footnotes clearly state these

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is a fascinating thread on possible physical properties of masks, viral spread, & infectivityin essence, even if a mask stops large droplets, the force of expulsion may nebulize them

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

arabbitorduck

[thread] 1 of 7The three-part challenge, regarding masks and SARS-CoV-2.Part 1: Mask advocates need to show that the virus is infectious in aerosols. Find a study where it can be

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ Should we call it “Airborne” or “Aerosol” transmission? Term “airborne” appears to be quite divisive. I’ve reached out to scientists on both sides of debate, asked for reasons why

Augie Ray

augieray

Eager to get back to normal? Hate wearing a mask? Read on and feel free to share. A helpful Q&A: 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗸, 𝘀𝗼 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆

Adam squires

adsquires

COVID can be airborne, in floating “aerosol” particles. We know how these particles move, and how long they stay in the air. What does this mean for minimising risk? TL;DR:

EpidemioLakshmy

epidemiolakshmy

@SaskiaPopescu @aetiology @angievassallo @angie_rasmussen, as we do #scicomm on transmission of respiratory infections, I came across "opportunistic aerosol transmission" - I can't remember who described the overdispersion of

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Amazing study, supporting droplet (rather than aerosol) as key means of transmission. One asymptomatic person infected 10 (out of 91) at restaurant—but *only* if they were in direct line of

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

One thing this crisis will have taught me is that many doctors, including those who work in academic medicine, are spectacularly dumb.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372 Imagine being so stupid that you don't understand

C Pita

CPita3

Is Airborne transmission an important and mitigable aspect of the COVID-19 Pandemic? YES - here's a summarizing the evidence from @kprather88's presentation.1/https://events.ucalgary.ca/obrien/#!view/event/event_id/306929 As Dr. Co

Florent T. d'Ouville

FlorentTdOuvill

Pourquoi le "protocole renforcé", dont Jean-Michel Blanquer a évoqué les contours ce soir, tient surtout de la poudre aux yeux ? Explications, notamment, mais pas seulement, pour celles et ceux

Kako

Kako_line

[#THREAD] Beaucoup disent laver leurs #emballages et leurs fruits et légumes avec des désinfectants. Je ne compte pas me substituer aux experts, mais vous présenter leurs recommandations d’un point de

ElginHSGeog

ElginHSGeog

Part one. #highergeography after the global energy budget - we then looked at how the distribution of energy in the #atmosphere varies between an surplus at the equator and a

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ The rebreathed fraction of air is the fraction of air that one inhales that came out of the collective respiratory systems of others in an indoor space. If a