Replies to post #170560 on Just Politics

[12yearplan]

Our findings indicate that surgical masks can efficaciously reduce the emission of influenza virus particles into the environment in respiratory droplets, but not in aerosols12. Both the previous and current study used a bioaerosol collecting device, the Gesundheit-II (G-II)12,15,19, to capture exhaled breath particles and differentiated them into two size fractions, where exhaled breath coarse particles >5?µm (respiratory droplets) were collected by impaction with a 5-µm slit inertial Teflon impactor and the remaining fine particles ≤5?µm (aerosols) were collected by condensation in buffer. We also demonstrated the efficacy of surgical masks to reduce coronavirus detection and viral copies in large respiratory droplets and in aerosols (Table 1b). This has important implications for control of COVID-19, suggesting that surgical face masks could be used by ill people to reduce onward transmission.

Among the samples collected without a face mask, we found that the majority of participants with influenza virus and coronavirus infection did not shed detectable virus in respiratory droplets or aerosols, whereas for rhinovirus we detected virus in aerosols in 19 of 34 (56%) participants (compared to 4 of 10 (40%) for coronavirus and 8 of 23 (35%) for influenza). For those who did shed virus in respiratory droplets and aerosols, viral load in both tended to be low (Fig. 1). Given the high collection efficiency of the G-II (ref. 19) and given that each exhaled breath collection was conducted for 30?min, this might imply that prolonged close contact would be required for transmission to occur, even if transmission was primarily via aerosols, as has been described for rhinovirus colds20. Our results also indicate that there could be considerable heterogeneity in contagiousness of individuals with coronavirus and influenza virus infections.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#article-info

[BullNBear52]

It is every man woman and child for themselves. Fauci made a fool out of the cabal running the administration yesterday.

Sucks that they can't fire him.

[rollingrock]

yep it's obvious you hate Trump.

The N95's are the only ones that work otherwise you look silly, pay for a mask and still can get the virus. The virus is mostly transmitted as an aerosol. Your breath. The second I put on a mask my glassed steam up which means it's not filtering the molecules the virus is riding on. I think if this virus is so deadly we should be wearing N95's don't you?