Posted on 03/12/2020 9:58:10 AM PDT by C19fan
All schools, colleges and nurseries will be closed across Ireland with outdoor gatherings of more than 500 people banned amid a growing coronavirus outbreak.
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar made the dramatic announcement in a speech given outside Blair House in Washington DC today, where he later met with Donald Trump.
He added that under the emergency measures, which will take effect from 6pm today until March 29, teaching will be completed online and museums, galleries and other tourist destinations will also close as a result of the action.
The UK has yet to announce similar measures despite eight deaths due to the virus, with Boris Johnson expected to defy demands for an immediate shutdown of schools and borders later today.
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Let’s try and keep it out of the rest of our nursing homes.
Forget droplets this bug is aerosolized and viable for hours after the host leaves the area.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf
Pay particular attention to the conclusions on sub 5 micron aerosols and look at the half life of those particles relative to the critical threshold of infection.
Simple version this bug can infect for at least 3 hours after the host leaves the enclosed area. Measles spreads this way a lot of viruses do actually.
Nurseries? I was thinking of getting a new bush for my front yard. Maybe I should get one soon before they shut down the nurseries around here.
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