Hand hygiene is likely more important for some viruses than others. It's not a binary outcome. Sorry you didn't see the importance of there being multiple viruses
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No, I didn't mean to say it wasn't important. I'm sorry if it came off that way. Intuitively it makes sense. I'm just just unclear on the details of how rhinoviruses were able to slip around the preventative measures as almost no other viruses did. Maybe related to this though?pic.twitter.com/3sdZjOcH1J
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And I understand that hand hygiene is important for some viruses. What I meant to say was that people have been going nuts on hand hygiene for most of the pandemic, & it hasn't seemed to phase rhinoviruses. But perhaps this is why they've been seen almost exclusively in kids?
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I know almost nothing about rhinoviruses, but like
@zeynep, I suspect the ID discipline is undergoing a real Kuhnian paradigm shift. There's a study that I've yet to read entirely by a lot of my favorite experts that says there's strong evidence for RV aerosol transmission thoughpic.twitter.com/EFTWEM5REG
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All this is potentially going to have a lot of upsides, going forward, I suspect for most respiratory pathogens.
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Just look at SARS literature (I have). Essentially, even its short-term epi etc. data is screaming at folks, but they just ignore or step over it because of the "close contact=respiratory droplet" conflation. We have a lot more data (or will?) for other ones, too.
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I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just doubtful we'll see the changes needed. Because humans
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Yeah, I hear you. (Still waiting to see how long it will take WHO to update its July 2020 scientific briefing). But that said, I think a lot of researchers feel empowered (they were ridiculed for so long, even into the pandemic) to make their empirical case. We'll see.
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The assumption in Asia was always that SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted through the air, and the burden of proof was on those asserting it wasn’t. China used high quality PPE and respirators from the beginning. I cannot understand why the WHO and CDC assumed the opposite
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