Posted on 04/02/2020 10:33:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Speaking, singing and possibly even breathing too close to people might spread the novel coronavirus even before people feel symptoms, according to findings in a study from Asia published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The analysis sheds new light on person-to-person transmission of COVID-19, as more than 90 percent of Americans hunker down at home to stem the spread of the virus.
The new report, published Wednesday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, documents seven "clusters" of cases in Singapore, the island city-state off the southern tip of Malaysia.
The outbreak, researchers say, most likely developed from a person passing the virus to others -- before that person had symptoms -- perhaps through talking and other "vocal activities," including singing.
The authors note that the spread of a virus through speaking or breathing "increases the challenges of containment measures," such as social distancing.
According to a CDC spokesman, the findings emphasize the importance of "putting distance between yourself and other people if COVID-19 is spreading in your community. This is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick."
The authors note that much of this "presymptomatic transmission" might be linked with speech and other vocal activities such as singing, which "have been shown to generate air particles, with the rate of emission corresponding to voice loudness."
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Beat me to it.
A neighbor the other day posted a request for people to not jog or ride bicycles on her street, citing some doctor’s statement that breathing fast and heavy spreads the virus.
She got clobbered from more reasonably and clear-minded folks.
Only if you're running Windows.
This is why face shields are important. You can talk to people and limit particulate transfer, which may contain the virus.
"I don't know" is on third.
Exactly. And the goal keeps moving farther down the field. What used to be a point after TD is now a 55 yard field goal attempt.
I have been informed conclusively I like a woman’s body by my body part.
They just keep moving the goal post, more and more fear mongering!!
Don’t you have to be coming from the other direction to get to that side?
May, might, could be, as much as, up to, possibly, often, more research needed.
Please send money.
A lot more independent study is needed, more than once, to see if this study’s summary findings can be duplicated.
It does seem strange when compared to another case in Singapore where a total of 50 persons who had had close contact with a Covid-19 positive person, in the days before she tested positive, were all tested for Covid-19 and all 50 tests were negative. If Covid-19 is so generously easy to transmit you’d think at least some % of those 50 would have tested positive.
I’m hearing if you stare at someone f meor 5-7 seconds from a distance of 1/4 to 1/2 mile you will transmit it to them/s/
This whole virus thing is getting more ridiculous by the day. Yep, keep it going until you collapse the already fragile economy.
I’m “pretty sure” that suit leaks...
Exactly. I was in a supermarket today - which was fine a couple of days ago, but today people have gone over the top in hysteria, wearing plastic gloves with plastic bags taped over them, glaring at people who said “excuse me” to get by them in the aisle, snapping at the clerks, etc. The constant drumbeat of the media is having its desired effect.
And the young are often worse than the older folks. But they were raised to be very fearful, when you think of it, and now we see the result.
Should read for more than 5-7 seconds.
“People without COVID-19 symptoms might spread virus by talking, study suggests”
NOT a headline from the Babylon Bee, btw ...
Who’s on third?
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