The only thing we can think of how my husband got the virus was being unmasked at a park and a jogger running close to him. So please stop with this nonscientific stuff. Masks outside are as important around other people as inside. The protesters wore masks.
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I'm sorry that your family had infections! That said, the likelihood that a *passing* jogger, even if unmasked, infected your husband would go hard against six months of epidemiological data. The quite rare outdoor cases we know of involve talking, at close distance, at length.
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Replying to @zeynep @neeratanden and
I've been a long-time mask advocate—long before it was accepted, have published extensively on this. While I do advocate people wear masks around people—even outdoors—all the aerosol scientists I interviewed with were fairly comfortable running or walking outdoors without masks.
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Replying to @zeynep @neeratanden and
Indeed, if short-range aerosol transmission outdoors was that infective, even in a passing moment, from a jogger no-less (a healthy person), we'd have billions of infections. Not denying the possibility or your experience, but... there really is a lot of data by now.
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I'm saying this because I think communicating a realistic relative risk assessment can help us highlight overlooked issues (people should mask up indoors at all times, even if they can distance) while recognizing outdoors is, indeed, different. More here:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ …
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