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
“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.”
How much did the tax payers pay for this NS B$ posing as a finding/study.
This past summer/August, a DNA son of 50+ and two non DNA sons, who adopted my wife and I supposedly had the Delta virus. They live in different cities and are miles apart.
They and their immediate families stayed home with them.
None of the 3 wives nor children of all ages 3-20 got the bug. In spite of being in the same home and in the same ACed air.
Recently, one of our related families in the MidWest, got OmniCrud. Both the adult mother and father had what was like a severe URI for a few days. Their 10 and 12 year old kids had the sniffles for 2 days. Due to seasonal allergies, their home has an excellent H VAC system and electronically cleaned air filters. That system failed to keep the OmniCrud from going from person to person. Their H VAC system failed like the H VAC systems on ocean liners, aka floating Petri dishes.
metmom:" 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."
From the article):"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.
“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. "
“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. "
Plus it’s common sense that any virus is most transmissible at home. It’s just the nature of the many dynamics of living at ‘home’.
There were some articles very early on about how someone sick with Covid should self isolate at home.
It was beyond ridiculous. NO contact. Wipe down everything every time you touched it.
Put food on disposable containers and essentially have the person drop the garbage out the bedroom window to avoid being any trace of the plague, er, ah virus back into the house. And on and on.
Hospitals don’t even have those kind of infection control measures they were telling people to use.
So - according to this research the only way to stop the spread is to send the sick off to camps where they are isolated by 100’ in single open-air cages. Some will think that is a great idea. And toss the unvaccinated in there as well just to be safe.
Shhhhh…..
Don’t give them any ideas.
It's a running joke...vaccination is omicron fertilizer. A twice vaxxed, not boosted gets very symptomatic omicron. A recently boosted party gets slightly less severity. The never injected get minor symptoms. My wife and I are non-injected. Sore throat, fatigue, malaise, slight fever. Most symptoms gone in a week.
The vaxx doesn't prevent contracting, incubating, or transmitting the virus. For some over 60, it temporarily prevents severe enough disease to require hospitalization for alpha -> delta. It doesn't help omicron BA.1. Too early to assess omicron BA.2.
Omicron only needs ACE2 and binds 2.6x more strongly than delta to ACE2. It is quick to attach to the upper respiratory tract. The alpha -> delta required ACE2 and TMPRSS to enter a target cell. That was only found in the lower lung, thus focusing interest on that target. In the end, SARS-CoV-2 is a vascular disease. It attacks the endothelial surfaces inside the blood vessels.
A letter issued by Tony Fauci expressed alarm that the virus also attacks the CD4 cells of the immune system. That is the genesis of the current concerns about HIV testing. The spike on both vaxx and virus has the HIV gp120 insert.
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