Posted on 02/07/2022 8:48:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Researchers have detected tiny airborne particles containing RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, both inside and outside of rooms in which infected people were self-isolating at home.
This finding suggests that airborne transmission beyond the isolation rooms in homes may pose a risk of infection to other home occupants.
The study, in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, is the first report of household air contamination with SARS-CoV2 RNA under typical daily living conditions when a household member is infected. Airborne transmission in crowded living conditions may be one reason for higher rates of COVID-19 infection among people with lower incomes.
“Risk of infection from larger respiratory droplets that rapidly settle onto surfaces, typically within two meters of the source, can be reduced by hand-washing, social distancing, and face masks, but the tiny respiratory particles that stay suspended in air for hours, require air filtration, ventilation, or better masks for prevention,” said lead author Howard Kipen, a professor at Rutgers School of Public Health and director of Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute.
The researchers collected air samples from 11 homes in rooms where a newly infected person was self-isolating, as well as in an adjacent common room to test for the presence of three SARS-CoV-2-specific genes in airborne particles.
They found positive air samples for at least one of three virus genes in six of the 11 isolation rooms and in six of the nine common rooms. Seven of these nine homes reported no other cases in the home.
To better understand how the virus spreads in the home, researchers asked participants to record their time in the isolation room and the common room.
“We discovered that many did not strictly adhere to self-isolation, with eight of the 11 infected study participants reporting spending from a few hours to 14 hours in the common room and five of 11 participants reporting spending time in other areas of the home,” Kipen said.
Additionally, in four of the homes, other residents were also positive or had symptoms.
“Our indoor air sampling data clearly demonstrated that measurable airborne SARS-CoV2 RNA was present in the air in the homes of most infected people, not only in the isolation room, but, importantly, elsewhere in the home,” Kipen said.
“The findings show that tiny airborne particles containing SARS-CoV-2 RNA can be found in homes of infected individuals beyond the room where they are supposedly self-isolating.”
This article was originally published by Rutgers University. Republished via Futurity.org under Creative Commons License 4.0
I find that a Social Distance of 1/20 mi. [264 ft.] to be very effective in reducing transmission.
Not a problem if everyone in the house is vaccinated, right?
Presence of RNA does not prove that live viruses are present
We’ve known this from the very start.
I remember very early on reading an article the cuomo was shocked to learn that most Covid cases occurred in those who were most diligently self-isolating.
The story very quickly disappeared down memory hole.
It’s simple: Everything the government claims to protect from the virus doesn’t work, and everything that does work is said to be useless and opposed or forbidden.
Not surprising at all.
Most homes don’t have bacterial infection controls, let alone for viruses. Air being recirculated through the furnace or AC is going to spread it...everywhere!
The past two years have me astounded at how ignorant, scientifically ignorant the general public is. It people had been educated properly, the government would have never gotten away with what they pulled.
The last place on earth at the outbreak I would have ever wanted to be was an apartment in NYC with poor air circulation.
Let’s hear it for cruise ships, offices, airplanes, any form of public transportation as a potential super spreader locations.
Did they detect said virus genes with that nifty PCR test, by chance?
We knew this early on. In fact, Cuomo made a statement in 2020 that it didn’t make sense that in NY the 100% self-quarantined people got Covid as much as, or more than, the others.
If they’ve all been jabbed or boosted in recent months, then you know the air is a sea of little bioweapons.
“Researchers have detected tiny airborne particles containing RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, both inside and outside of rooms in which infected people were self-isolating at home.”
why is this a surprise, especially in homes with central, forced heat and/or air conditioning?
Our son, who did not follow our regiment caught it, became very ill, but got MAT and was better in a week.
We continued to test as not to pass it on but no positives.
So between God’s blessings and the miracle of his natural bounty bestowed upon us, did we stumble on a simple preventive therapy?
I cannot recommend it as a substitute for vaccination. People may believe they have comorbidities that out them in the vulnerable category, but I’d recommend them as a normal supplement regiment.
RE: Our son, who did not follow our regiment caught it, became very ill, but got MAT and was better in a week
Just curious, what does MAT stand for?
Monoclonal Antibody Therapy
As usual.
Figgered that out when the Antarctic research station reported the majority of its researchers had CoVID (Omicron), and you couldn’t even approach the plane to board unless fully ‘jabbed’ and ‘boosted’.
Infectious disease ping
Any respiratory virus can spread and infect via <2.5nm aerosol particles — which is most of what you breathe out. This has been known for years, ever since the CDC/WHO funded tests back in 2015 in SEastAsia.
Nobody even knows the source of this virus. Who’s to say that it’s not being pumped out into the environment? Conspiratorial, I know but it’s no less plausible than it jumping from an animal to a human.
How else are people finding that Deer they have hunted tested positive? Wild animals definitely enforce their own “self quarantine zone” so I find this extremely ponderous. It’s impossible not to be a skeptic and think outside the box these days.
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