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I dont know anything about the author or Science20.com but RealClearScience.Com is a legit site.
This articles lays out some common sense prevention techniques which everyone probably know but it also has some quotes from Dr. Bruce Aylward an infectious disease expert and more details about who is at risk.
* Wash hands frequently, stop touching face, keep 1-2 meters from anyone sick.
* * The author claims the disease is "hard to get" since it is NOT AIRBORNE.
* 99.8% of people who get it will recover.
1 posted on 03/14/2020 2:07:12 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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“Aerosolized” would be droplets, which tend not to travel far, and drop to the floor fairly quickly where most will stick. These can be mostly filtered out of the air by passing through some material fine enough to guarantee the droplets touch something.

“Airborne” contagions float around like dust motes and a breeze can lift them back up. These would need to be filtered out of the air with very fine filters.

This coronavirus appears to be spread by aerosol droplets, and contact with contaminated surfaces, and does not appear to be truly “airborne”. There’s a difference, but it’s not obvious if you aren’t used to the terminology.


64 posted on 03/14/2020 4:33:33 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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But is is airborne as are most viruses spread by droplets in a sneeze for example.


68 posted on 03/14/2020 5:12:00 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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Ironic how accurate this is - if more people would take normal Flu/cold precautions, instead of buying up all the TP and bleach that they will be years in using up, no bugs would propagate like they do.


75 posted on 03/15/2020 3:41:18 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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The main problem is, possibly always is, you are appealing to the same people who would completed strip a store in their own selfish pursuits...and who do not give a damn about anyone else.
Not their neighbors ..not the elderly..no one.
Add to it ..illegals, who have no real connection to our country, who have not ever been tested for everyday viruses ..let alone deadly viruses and diseases..and likely don’t care if a few thousand, or even a few million,gringos die.


80 posted on 03/15/2020 5:19:04 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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The main problem is, possibly always is, you are appealing to the same people who would completely strip a store in their own selfish pursuits
The same people who likely do not give a damn about anyone else.
Not their neighbors ..not the elderly..no one!
Add to it ..millions of people who have no real connection to our country, who have never been tested for everyday viruses,Let alone deadly viruses and diseases, because they entered the country illegally.
Many who probably don’t care if a few thousand, or even a few million,gringos die.


81 posted on 03/15/2020 5:28:21 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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