Posted on 06/01/2020 4:54:57 PM PDT by Libloather
As states across America being to reopen, some scientists are voicing fears about so-called "superspreaders" who may be responsible for larger numbers of coronavirus cases through airborne transmission.
Although many businesses are reopening with stringent social distancing guidelines, those practices vary significantly from state to state and even from city to city within various states.
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, wrote in a recent perspective paper in Science that a review of existing literature provides evidence that the new coronavirus can linger in the air, perhaps even for hours, before entering a person’s lungs.
"Evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 is silently spreading in aerosols exhaled by highly contagious infected individuals with no symptoms. Owing to their smaller size, aerosols may lead to higher severity of COVID-19 because virus-containing aerosols penetrate more deeply into the lungs," the paper concluded.
That initial paper from Prather and her colleagues was meant to encourage the widespread adoption of wearing a mask in public. Researchers are still trying to figure out whether aerosols can pack a strong enough viral punch to infect people; some scientists believe that more study is needed, while others say enough evidence already exists to proceed with caution.
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What is a COVID19? Off the front pages and into the history books.
This is such bovine excrement. Just another excuse to keep the states shut down longer.
Rioters are not superspreaders? Somehow I think someone will pull a study out of their *** saying rioters are immune.
Sounds “anecdotal” (snark)
Or disappearing into myth! Nothing like a lot of violence to get your attention.
and tons of Scientists are just Manure Spreaders
remember when the merchants of covid deaths were miserable the numbers were decreasing, the study conveniently appeared, claiming positive results are positive and negative results are probably positive too?
2 Jun: ABC Australia: Coronavirus false positive result for Blackwater man Nathan Turner prompts apology from Queensland Premier
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has apologised to the family of a Central Queensland man whose death was wrongly attributed to COVID-19.
Her apology has come after confirmation Blackwater man, Nathan Turner, did not die of coronavirus, igniting an angry backlash among residents of the tight-knit central Queensland community...
After a social media post yesterday afternoon revealed his fiancee, Simone Devon, had been told that a post-mortem examination confirmed Mr Turner, 30 did not have COVID-19, Facebook was flooded with irate comments...
Mr Turner was named as “Australia’s youngest COVID-19 victim” on May 27 when the Premier announced he had tested positive for coronavirus after being found dead at his Blackwater home...
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine president Ewan McPhee told ABC Capricornia the negative coronavirus result was not a surprise.
“You would expect for this tragic event to have been related to COVID, that there would have been significant cases within the community and clearly that isn’t the case,” Dr McPhee said.
“It’s certainly extraordinary that the same town has had two false-positive cases and it begs the question as to whether the testing is accurate and being done correctly. I think that warrants investigation...
Rumours of a false positive test had been circulating in Blackwater for days after The Australian newspaper reported a second test done several hours after the initial test had come back negative.
When questioned about this, Dr Young dismissed the second test because it was too contaminated to be effective and said it was likely Mr Turner did have COVID-19...
This case follows a “false positive” test result for another Blackwater worker in April.
Mining company BHP Mitsubishi Alliance revealed one of its workers, who had tested positive for COVID-19, was later cleared after a second test and the mistake was attributed to a “laboratory error”.
At the time, Queensland Health declined to comment on the case or the number of false positive results...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-02/coronavirus-queensland-nathan-turner-false-positive-blackwater/12308080
ABC in-house Doc, Norman Swan, has been on air this morning saying nonetheless, if you get a negative result, but have a couple of the many covid symptoms, you should have another test done, because you could well be positive, and that positives are usually correct, cos a study said so.
given how the “authorities” and MSM jumped all over this story when it originally broke - seemingly to squash Queenslanders’ demands for an end to the lockdown, as there were only 6 deaths and virtually no new cases for weeks - it’s telling the news of the second “negative result” didn’t come from “authorities”:
2 Jun: 9News Australia: Coronavirus: Town angry after youngest ‘virus death’ tests negative
Mr Turner, 30, had serious underlying health issues (EPILEPSY AND ASTHMA) before experiencing coronavirus symptoms in the weeks before he died and was not tested while alive.
As Mr Turner had not worked for six months or left the mining town since February, authorities were unsure how he contracted the virus.
Hundreds of Blackwater locals were tested and Queensland Health even had the town’s sewage tested to try and determine the source of his COVID-19 infection...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-queensland-nathan-turner-miner-blackwater-death-not-caused-by-covid-19-coroner-health-news/99556df5-e62d-4e45-8e66-8d26ac4f092a
petty tyrant, Jeannette Young who has shut down Queensland’s borders til at least September (that could change due to general anger and specific tourism industry anger as southern Aussies visit Qld during winter to get away from the cold, bringing billions of $$ into the debt-ridden State):
2 Jun: Brisbane Times Australia: Calls for answers and apologies after central Queensland COVID-19 scare
By Matt Dennien and Lydia Lynch; With Toby Crockford, AAP
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young confirmed in a statement on Monday night that the coroner advised “further tests” had come back negative...
The revelation has sparked anger and confusion, with an online petition calling for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Dr Young to apologise to Mr Turner’s family and community already receiving more than 2700 signatures by Tuesday morning.
“Your leadership created emotional, mental and physical trauma,” the petition read.
Opposition leader Deb Frecklington also backed the calls. “There are some serious questions to be answered today,” she told 4BC...
“How can Queenslanders have confidence in the testing regime in Queensland?”...
A workmate of Mr Turner’s partner first revealed the coroner’s finding on Monday night, later confirmed by Queensland Health...
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/calls-for-answers-and-apologies-after-central-queensland-covid-19-scare-20200602-p54yjw.html
enough of the testing.
This scam is finished, they have moved on to a race war.
Those oceanographers...they really know their air particles. Just like atmospheric scientists know the ocean!
And make us all hide behind masks. Not happening in Tucson. Too hot.
Shut up and get out of the way your time has come and gone
More BS to scare the sheeple.
Covid19 is a group of anarchists that are setting buildings on fire
Perhaps they will kill all the analfa
LIES. Lies and propaganda.
Perhaps that is the rationale for Antifa organizing the protests, thinking it will seed new outbreaks, the timing is suspicious to say the least.
Yawn.
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