15/ (g) Arg -: “aerosols” don’t have a very specific meaning in health care. When I mention the 5 micron error in WHO guidance, nobody in ID-E-PH reacts. Often they say the equivalent of “microns schmicrons”, doesn’t matter much to them. This is an opportunity! “Aerosols” is...
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In the piece y'all contributed so much to, I kept saying short-range aerosols and explaining but I also didn't want people to think there is short-range aerosols and something *else* called airborne, and that the latter was impossibly scary. Really tough but here we are!
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See here what I keep trying to do, use "short-range aerosols" to move that term, but put airborne there, too, to try to explain that's what we mean, there's no separate airborne as in "it's airborne!" a la Dustin Hoffman. Best I got for the complex issue.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1288829829912113154 …
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But the health impact whether it is short or long range aerosols doesn't matter, does it? The smaller ones (which travel further and build up in a room) will still get to the same place in your lungs, right? Can you explain how the designation of short or long range matters?
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Did you see Outbreak? There's a scene Dustin Hoffman looks at the ceiling vent and says "it's airborne!" to mean that it's gonna spread all over the hospital; that everyone in the same building is at equal risk. We see a Steadicam shot through vents. That's what people may think.
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This is where science and medicine differs. While all of you scientists keep dithering on terminology, the public just needs to know that it is spread in the air and a mask can help keep you from getting it. Yes, it also keeps others from getting it, but US public are selfish.
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