1/ TIME FOR SOME AIRBORNE + DROPLET HISTORY
Now that @WHO and @CDCgov have finally accepted *after a year of denial and delays* that airborne transmission is a major mode for COVID-19, it is time to review the history to try to understand why this response was so poor.
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Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez Retweeted Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
2/ Remember, the evidence is overwhelming that airborne transmission (1 to 1 in close proximity, and 1 to many in shared room air = superspreading) is the dominant mode of transmission.https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1383566908797059078 …
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Prof. Jose-Luis JimenezVerified account @jljcolorado1/ TEN SCIENTIFIC REASONS IN SUPPORT OF AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION OF SARS-CoV-2 Peer-reviewed publication in@TheLancet An honor to have collaborated in multidisciplinary team across medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, aerosol science, sociology https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2/fulltext …Show this thread3 replies 152 retweets 744 likesShow this thread -
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez Retweeted Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
3/ And probably we are being charitable by saying only "dominant." Can't find any real evidence that airborne is not 99%. Airborne can explain all the epidemiological patterns, while large droplets and fomites can't, and they are pathetically lacking ev.https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1390497149574651906 …
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez added,
Prof. Jose-Luis JimenezVerified account @jljcoloradoSerious question: do we have any evidence to suggest that airborne is not ~100% of SARS-CoV-2 transmission? Plausibly there are likely small contributions from droplets (if someone coughs on someone's face) or surfaces (rare cases). But is there evidence? Pls include in repliesShow this thread7 replies 147 retweets 774 likesShow this thread -
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@zeynep published an outstanding article yesterday in the@nytimes where she explains the context, the implications, and some of the history. I wanted to give some more historical detail, without the word limits that she faced in@nytimes.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html …4 replies 134 retweets 708 likesShow this thread
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(experiment at a Florida University with 10 - 20 micron droplets, video source CNN. watch to the end...)