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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
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1) Where did the 5-μm cutoff for aerosols in disease transmission come from? (It should really be ~100 μm)2) Where did the 6' rule come from?@katierandall @EThomasEwing @jljcolorado Bourouiba &
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Here's a summarizing my testimony on airborne transmission of COVID-19. Full version at https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/clearing-the-air-science-based-strategies-to-protect-workers-from-covid-19-infections /0 COVID-19 is transmitted
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We started studying cloth masks in March. Preprint now at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.20233353v1 Take-home: Cloth masks are not an N95, but they work reasonably well for aerosols 1-2 microns and larger, which
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Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067728v1 Beautiful detective work by Yuguo Li, re-enacting the scenario, reviewing video (no fomite or close contact between tables ABC). Shows transmission by microscopic droplets is the best expl
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Very important results confirm what I have suspected: SARS-CoV-2 survives very well in aerosols. No measurable decay over 12+ hours. Careful work by good team. https://twitter.com/ProfCharlesHaas/status/1251979162920914949 This a long time,
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Needed some time to digest new paper on masks and coronavirus (seasonal ones, not SARS-CoV-2), flu, rhinovirus. Main points: 1) 4/10 patients shed coronavirus directly into aerosols (
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Let's talk about #airborne transmission of #SARSCOV2 and other viruses. A discussion is needed to improve accuracy and reduce fear associated with the term. /1 The virus can be released
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