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#RSVisAirborne, so wear an N95.
The Respiratory Syncytial Virus IS airborne🧵.
If you say it's not? Check your level of aerosol knowledge.
Because you are probably going to cite Hall, who tested cuddlers, touchers, and sitters with sick babies.
The Respiratory Syncytial Virus IS airborne🧵.
If you say it's not? Check your level of aerosol knowledge.
Because you are probably going to cite Hall, who tested cuddlers, touchers, and sitters with sick babies.
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This study is worthless as it was confounded by:
❌ Time.
Cuddlers 2-4 hours, sitters exactly 3, touchers went into rooms for unknown period of time. Those rooms were previously inhabited by an infected baby. Infectious aerosols would still have been floating.
❌ Time.
Cuddlers 2-4 hours, sitters exactly 3, touchers went into rooms for unknown period of time. Those rooms were previously inhabited by an infected baby. Infectious aerosols would still have been floating.
The people who wanted to propagate the "droplet" vs airborne fiction got lucky until now.
1. The serious diseases like Ebola, which is also in the air, always necessitated N95s anyways because they were so serious.
1. The serious diseases like Ebola, which is also in the air, always necessitated N95s anyways because they were so serious.
2. And for many other diseases like flu RSV rhinovirus adenovirus etc, (which are in the air), droplet precautions weren't doing anything.
BUT, people don't typically die in great numbers from these viruses.
BUT, people don't typically die in great numbers from these viruses.
So, nobody really cared.
For serious diseases the severity scared people into wearing top protection.
And for the lesser diseases, it didn't matter to those in charge. They could get away with "droplet" despite they probably knew it was airborne.
For serious diseases the severity scared people into wearing top protection.
And for the lesser diseases, it didn't matter to those in charge. They could get away with "droplet" despite they probably knew it was airborne.
