#Fomites

The fusion / FACE MASK combines Cupron antimicrobial material and HEMP BLACKTM / element yarn,these technologies offer a solution to Mask Fatigue and defenseslowing the spread of Covid-19 https://hempblack.com/blogs/in-the-news/what-is-hemp

Charles "No basis for 6 ft and 15 min" Haas

ProfCharlesHaas

The fallacy of #fomites.There has been a lot of attention devoted to the potential transmission of #COVID19 by fomites, a lot of money and time spent on "sanitizing" surfaces, and

Read and weep how the Skagit choir superspreading outbreak, first in the US, was ignored or explained away as maybe fomites or contact—a theory that required contortions that'd make epicycles

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

Covid is airborne, but the continuing insistence in pushing fomites as the major source of infections makes ‘the idea of fomites as the main infection route’ a large contributor to

Magilla Gorilla 39

(1) Cold, dry air irritates your nasal lining, and as a result, your nasal glands produce excess mucus to keep the lining moist. A runny nose and post nasal drip

Richard Nicholl

I think what I misunderstood about the second wave was that people would have learned any lessons from the first Here is a non-exhaustive list of things we did not

Dr. Melvin Sanicas 🩺🔬

#Thread on symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic #transmission. A symptomatic #COVID19 case is a patient who developed signs & symptoms compatible with #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus #infection. Symptomatic transmission refers to transmission from a

This is a good article, highlighting the failures of public information promulgated around COVID, though little that folks on here haven't widely discussed. I want to add a point though.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronav

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Here is the public health mainstream vs math fight here, and I think personally biased by a thought of seasonal respiratory viruses being spread more by fomites, very close contact/droplets

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

From 1979The coronaviruses are transmitted by the respiratory route. It has been possible artificially to induce infection in human volunteers by inoculating virus into the nose (7, 59). No other

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Something has really been bothering me a lot and it's the notion that there is a scientific debate about whether aerosol transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus occurs. I don't think

During a March 10 choir practice in Skagit County, WA, a single person—possibly a "superemitter"—likely infected 52 / 60 people in attendance (87%). No reported physical contact & few opportunities

ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧻

Just a reminder that we have two-fifths of FA real data on how any single person or group gets infected by SARS-CoV-2. We're not there to observe the process. We

Jose-Luis Jimenez

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

Deep dive by @zeynep from a sociological perspective on what we who have studied airborne transmission for a while, have been observing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html?smid=tw-share /1 Ther

Michael Story ⚓

A lot of contemporary explanations for superforecasters outperforming the Intelligence Community were quite specific to intel: eg that agencies had a pro-secrecy bias so undervalued open source, or couldn't recruit