#Fomite

For all the people that’ve been cleaning their groceries, opening door handles with lysol wipes etc, let’s look at the evidence for the fomite transmission of COVID-19 (& asymptomatic transmission
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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
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It took 40 years to admit TB was airborne. It was thought to be droplet / fomite. Because of ease of infection in close proximity, and cases of shared air
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FOMITE THREADA very quick thread on fomites. 2/ 1960s 3/ Staph - blankets had to be covered with staph to transmit 4/ Ditchburn 1971 - RSV on hospital wards. Put
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Our paper is available online! "Environmental and Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients" https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa575 Highlights below: Among the more than 400 samples,we found molecular evidence of
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I find it bizarre to hear an ID physician claim that only airborne transmission can explain six cases on one floor of a hotel, given what we know about sketchy
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1/NIH Study: COVID-19 severity could depend on route of infection: Infection through inhaling #Airborne virus could lead to more severe disease than infection from fomites (contact w/ contaminated objects.) To
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Twas the night before Christmas, and on the orders of Whitty, granny bumps elbows, obeying the sage committee. Sage has an unfair reputation for being not-so festive. Herein my digest
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Just a reminder that R0 for SARS-CoV-2 may in fact be higher than 2.5-3.5.In fact, perhaps even double that (R0 = 5-7)https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1297571423041585153 (or higher) New variant increases R by 0.4
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1) It's official: research that found infectious SARS-CoV-2 in air samples has been peer-reviewed: "significant environmental contamination in rooms where patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 are housed and cared for, regardless
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Over 900 UK health and care workers have died of COVID-19, most due to occupational exposure. They continue to die because infection control in health and care settings is built
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Many articles that argue in favor of the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 use the “choir rehearsal super-spreading event” as an example.But do you know what really happened in that rehearsal?
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Most people opposing lockdowns are not "pandemic deniers".We are "COVID monomania" deniers.This is not the first time a pandemic is happening. This is the first time we are responding like
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I’ve been delighted to see the sudden surge in support for mandatory hotel quarantine (MHQ) in Ireland, with the aim of achieving zero covid. While it is, on balance, the
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Wait. WAIT. #bioweapons twitter - am I the only person who didn't know someone tried to assassinate Abe Lincoln with yellow fever?! And that the rest of DC was just
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1/n In front of me as I see it...are two pandemic stages...fiction and non fiction...as a retired engineering practitioner I see theatrics of drama, distraction & mystery - the other
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