The way this thing is spreading.. I’m thinking it has to be airborne by now.
No way that these healthcare workers got this virus by any other way but airborne....
What has been known about this strain is that it takes a droplet with as few as 10 individual viruses in it to become infected.
We’ve got a cold going around Western WA that for the first time in a while hit everyone in my family - no exceptions. This includes my wife who is a school teacher, whose immune system is legendary.
Imagine something with that kind of transmissibility with the lethality of Ebola. It doesn’t have to be airborne to do the kind of damage one would call historical.
What they don’t know, and what NOBODY has talked about:
1. Can a flea that bites and feeds off an infected patient infect someone else?
2. Substitute any pest that feeds on human blood or tissue, and answer the same question?
Plague was carried by fleas. To my way of thinking, it would be so much worse if the answer to either of the above questions was ‘yes’. Worse that it being airborne.
I agree.
Having to tape up gloves, full head covering, etc. Precautions for airborne.
CDC protocol left them exposed on shoes, neck, and hair.
They're getting it from their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when they take it off.
There is ZERO epidemiologic evidence from Africa or from Dallas of airborne transmission.
The first is droplet dispersion from body functions like sneezing, coughing, vomiting and "explosive diarrhea". These emissions can contaminate surfaces as well as the air.
The second is the actual pathogen leaving the body and being suspended in the air. This can be simply in the breath or cells sloughed by the body (think of the dust you see in a sunbeam).
None of Duncan’s hazmat was treated like hazmat. It was piled in a corner up to the ceiling. Texas Presby had no protocols for this. Nurse’s union is furious on Breitbart.
Could be airborne, but the workers had completely inadequate gear and were overrun with overstacked waste.