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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
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Chapin 1912.Talking about droplets and airborne. To him "airborne" meant long-range as in many kilometers. Droplet could be through the air more than 1 or 2 m. Plus, he said
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[From a chat. Someone asked what the origin for most infection comes from close contact]From the epi reports where you ask the person what they did for a week, etc,
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Remember, John Snow was an armchair epidemiologist. https://www.practicalplaybook.org/success/story/map-making-and-myth-making-john-snows-map-didn%E2%80%99t-solve-1854-cholera-outbreakAnd the guy who checked his work was a priest.http://kor
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1. COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 information including links to dashboards, etc.https://jonathanmc.github.io/COVID-19-and-SARS-CoV2-info/2. Ontario COVID-19 cases, from official sources, charted by date, age, gender, region, etc. Updated daily. You ca
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Asia has been there for a while.Then CDC half way.Germany accepted.WHO will get there but has holdups on its guidance committee.Now Canada taking steps.Be on the leading edge of science.Sign
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#COVIDisAirborne. It always has been. 120 years we should have known this. Be generous say 80). We should have been prepared for it, but experts mangled the science so we
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"It was largely on the basis of Toronto’s Sunnybrook disaster on April 13,when nine health workers caught SARS, that the CDC decided in favour of the precautionary approach and opted
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A damning indictment of droplet theory from as long as ago.1936, Wells & Wells, a husband and wife team.Thread. History. Before 1861 we didn't know there were organisms in the
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Finally got around to starting in on the old measles articles. These are the ones that show that measles is "magic" and "airborne" whereas very little else is.So, one infected
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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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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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Guess I'll just do a quick post about this.Remember back in early 2020 when everybody was saying maybe masks would work to stop the spread? But certain people said nah,
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