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#Covid19 facts for those negotiating indoor dining rules today

#1 Covid-19 spreads in air & can fill a room like smoke in certain conditions

Irrespective of distance, if 6 people spend time in shared air, up to 5 will be infected english.elpais.com/society/2020-1…
#2 Delta variant is TWICE as transmissible as the #Covid19 circulating last year, Delta is now 70% of cases in Ireland (& rising)

thejournal.ie/delta-variant-…
#3 Indoor dining (without precautions) is very high risk of #superspread as people are close together, talking & shouting, for a long time, without masks

‘Public health experts, including Dr. Fauci, say evidence is abundantly clear: When bars open, infections tend to follow’
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[Thread] Learning from #COVID19 #superspread

🇺🇸USA Skagit Choir practice: 1 person with mild symptoms, 2.5-hours indoors, 50 infected, 2 deaths

“you can be inhaling what someone else exhaled even if they are far away from you” 1/ colorado.edu/today/2020/09/…
🇰🇷 South Korea, restaurant #Covid19 #superspread

CCTV shows 1 person infected another seated 6 metres away within 5 mins

“person was seated near a ceiling-type air conditioner, which blew virus droplets” 2/verywellhealth.com/air-flow-covid…
🇩🇪 Germany, meat factory #Covid19 #superspread

1,500 workers infected, indoors at 10°C low humidity

“Cold & stale air conditions allowed coronavirus particles to travel more than 8 meters” 3/
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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International science:
‘Restaurants & pubs are highest risk for indoor super-spread, as virus builds up quickly in air & nobody wears masks’

Ireland:
‘Restaurants & pubs to be ‘key battleground’ in lockdown exit talks’

Is #Covid19 in these talks?
irishtimes.com/news/politics/…
Cork: ‘57 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were linked to a cáfe-restaurant where people from different households socialised’ #superspread
echolive.ie/corknews/Covid…
South Korea: ‘one infected person attended five nightclubs, caused 50+ new infections’

Hong Kong: ‘106 cases linked back to exposures from staff & musicians at bars.. 73 of the people in this cluster caught virus at the bars, 39 were customers vox.com/21296067/coron…
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