In 1977, an Alaska Airlines flight returned to Homer, Alaska, after experiencing engine trouble and sat on the tarmac there for four hours with the ventilation system off.
Of the 49 passengers on board, 35 developed flu symptoms and five were hospitalized. Researchers ultimately traced the outbreak to a woman who felt fine when she boarded but later became ill.
The case jolted epidemiologists into the realization that influenza could spread through the air.
Research has already shown that the coronavirus is nearly twice as contagious as influenza and far more deadly.
Won’t matter, the flubros have a bucket full of rationalizations that they pull out any time negative facts appear. I don’t know why we need epidemiologists....the flubros apparently know much more than they do, and have learned it all from the comfort of their couches.
It is true that there is a very critical (and very difficult) decision that must be made between fighting the virus and preserving the economy. No one disputes that. But far too many here have turned into full-blown conspiracy theorists, somehow believing that the entire world, including President Trump, has been fooled, that there is nothing serious about this, and that every doctor, researcher, and infectious disease specialist is either stupid or lying. Yet somehow the flubros possess the real knowledge, sitting on their couches.
It sounds exactly like the millennials who run around claiming 9/11 was a hoax, or that we never landed on the moon (an oldie, but one they have resurrected), or my favorite - that commercial jets run on compressed air, not fuel, and that airlines are lying when they say that they use combustion.
[[The case jolted epidemiologists into the realization that influenza could spread through the air.]]
Oh goodness no- can’t be- a doctor was on water’s world telling everyone that 99% come from direct contact for over 20 minutes or so or something like that- and all we gotta do is wash our hands and we’ll be safe- couldn’t believe that doc was saying that, and that Jesse was hyping it- telling everyone ‘now pay attention, this is very important’ etc as the doc says we’re practically immune if we just wash our hands and keep our hands away from our faces- - practically every other doc is saying it is airborne and easily caught- and that particles can stay i n air for up to 3 hours- whether we touch our faces or not- just walking through a cloud of virus will end up giving a person the virus as they breath it in-
Yes, keeping our hands away from our faces is very important for every flu and virus- but a large number of folks get it just by benign i n same room with infected- who spew it into the air by breathing and nseezing-
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“Research has already shown that the coronavirus is nearly twice as contagious as influenza and far more deadly.”
But the CV19 infection rate on the cruise ships was under 20%, far lower than your airplane example, and with a far longer time of exposure.
“The case jolted epidemiologists into the realization that influenza could spread through the air.”
They knew in 1918 that it was spread by droplets in the air from coughs or sneezes. You can see that on flyers from the time.
If you mean spread just by breathing, we are still not sure of that today.