Posted on 10/03/2021 2:40:03 PM PDT by algore
Newer variants of the coronavirus such as alpha and delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus. Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air.
The realization that the coronavirus is airborne indoors transformed efforts to contain the pandemic last year, igniting fiery debates about masks, social distancing and ventilation in public spaces.
Most researchers now agree that the coronavirus is mostly transmitted through large droplets that quickly sink to the floor and through much smaller ones, called aerosols, that can float over longer distances indoors and settle directly into the lungs, where the virus is most harmful.
“This is not an Armageddon scenario,” said Vincent Munster, a virus expert at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led one of the new studies. “It is like a modification of the virus to more-efficient transmission, which is something I think we all kind of expected, and we now see it happening in real time.”
Munster’s team showed that small aerosols traveled much longer distances than larger droplets and the alpha variant was much more likely to cause new infections via aerosol transmission. The second study found that people infected with alpha exhaled about 43 times more virus into tiny aerosols than those infected with older variants.
The studies compared the alpha variant with the original virus or other older variants. But the results may also explain why the delta variant is so contagious — and why it displaced all other versions of the virus.
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No It is not, and this non-peer reviewed study is a load of complete and utter BS.
the small genetic differences can not affect the ability to aerosolize.
The longer this thing goes on, the more ridiculously-juvenile “news” stories offered by the Democrat media.
covering up the protein spike shedding of the vaxxed, that is what this piece is
No, but the lies are definitely more airborne.
It’s New Science.
Pretty soon the media will say it is acquired by just thinking about it.
There may also be danger in thinking about someone else when you’re within six feet of them and they’re not wearing a head covering.
“covering up the protein spike shedding of the vaxxed, that is what this piece is”
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Yeah, we “the vaccinated” regularly get together, share the virus and discuss our secret plans to go out amongst the UNVAXXED and shed spike proteins in their vicinity. It’s all very hush hush.
“Given that it seems to be evolving towards generating aerosols better, then we need better containment and better personal protection,” Milton said of the virus. “We are recommending people move to tighter-fitting masks.”
How about let’s just... not.
NO
Turn off the tv and social media. Problem solved.
I’m afraid that I’ll get it by clicking on yahoo. Pass. :o)
you deliberately took that out of context.
you know thats not at all what my comment meant.
Remember how proper hand washing was going to save us all. Everything they knew about Covid has changed. Now the only thing that matters is the vaccine which, in reality, doesn’t matter.
Yes. Bunch of hand-waving crap.
Guess we’ll all be wearing hazmat suits by Christmas. Anything to continue the chaos and oppression. It’s amazing how many “researchers” are “studying” the virus and how little is “known”. The revelations continue apace.
Maybe we should rename it to the Andromeda Strain.
It must be airborne. That would explain why I see drivers wearing masks behind the rolled-up windows of their Priuses.
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