ND WHO & NEJM - SARS-COV-2 is An “Aerosol”

[LrgK9]

World Health Organization and New England Journal of Medicine reporting Corona Virus is aerosol in the form of droplets Particles

https://apple.news/ADgeAbxocQRmpTY-YRgCnHA


(Warning - discrepancies between reputable sources wary wildly)

One Sneeze = thousands up to a million particles

WHO
Droplets - Thousands of particles
? Hours - Aerosol
2 Hours - Copper
2 Hours - Stainless Steel
2+ Hours - Plastic
2+ Hours - Cardboard

Reuters
Droplets - Up to a million particles
3 Hours - Aerosol
4 Hours - Copper
2+ Hours - Plastic
24 Hours - Cardboard
72 Hours - Plastic
72 Hours - Stainless Steel

NEWS /UNITED STATES
Coronavirus can survive on some surfaces for days, study shows
Virus can survive up to 4 hours on copper, up to 3 days on plastic, stainless steel and a day on cardboard, paper says.

8 hours ago
The new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 disease can survive on some surfaces for days or in the air for several hours, according to a new study.

Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Tuesday suggested that SARS-CoV-2 was detectable for up to four hours on copper and two to three days on plastic and stainless steel, and up to 24 hours on cardboard.

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Using a nebuliser to simulate a person coughing or sneezing, scientists from the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), University of California, Los Angeles and Princeton found that the virus became an aerosol, meaning its particles became suspended in the air, making it detectable for almost three hours.



https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

 

[LawDawg86]

That's not my understanding of what "airborne" means.

Droplets that are ejected from a human, fly through the air, and land on an environmental surface that could later be touched, is not "airborne."

Airborne is the measles, where someone walking through an airport can simply breath it in the air (obviously they could also cough or sneeze, but the breathing is the important distinction here), and someone simply walking through that area can breath it in and become infected, even hours later.

The first one is bad enough. Airborne is super scary shit.

 

[LrgK9]

That's not my understanding of what "airborne" means.

Droplets that are ejected from a human, fly through the air, and land on an environmental surface that could later be touched, is not "airborne."

Airborne is the measles, where someone walking through an airport can simply breath it in the air (obviously they could also cough or sneeze, but the breathing is the important distinction here), and someone simply walking through that area can breath it in and become infected, even hours later.

The first one is bad enough. Airborne is super scary shit.

“found that the virus became an aerosol, meaning its particles became suspended in the air, making it detectable for almost three hours.”

Aerosol by definition is airborne by my understanding...

 

[DawgGoesWoof]

Aerosoliized Droplets is not the same thing as “airborne”.

 

[AlchemyDawg186]

“found that the virus became an aerosol, meaning its particles became suspended in the air, making it detectable for almost three hours.”

Aerosol by definition is airborne by my understanding...

Needs to be transmittable by small dry particles as well as larger liquid droplets to be considered airborne

 

[DawgGoesWoof]

Just to put it into perspective, Covid 19 infected individuals transmit the virus to 2-3 people on average. That’s extremely contagious and a big driver of the concern.

Measles is a true airborne pathogen. Small dry particles as well as aerosol. Infected individuals transmit to 14-16 others on average.

Very big difference.

 

[LrgK9]

So, suspended as liquid particles in the air detectable for 3 hours is not airborne?

and “a man, under the law, is responsible for the actions of his wife.”

 

[LrgK9]

Ok, I changed the heading, who amongst ye are gonna tell the 101st they are no longer Airborne?