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1/ Proponents of the droplet / fomite paradigm of transmission have a big problem: how to explain that transmission is x20 lower outdoors than indoors?

- V. easy to explain if #COVIDisAirborne, just huge dilution w/ outdoor air
- Impossible w/ droplets

academic.oup.com/jid/article/22…
2/ Here @CollignonPeter, who seems to be the head of infection control in Australia (ICEG) seems to invoke the "Open Air Factor", some unknown germicidal component of outdoor air.

3/ Does this save the large droplet theory?

Remember, droplets that fall within 1-2 m do so in seconds, as in this video from @WHO:

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